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几天前警察捡到一包毒品,当时还戴着手套,却中毒了,中毒的症状和吸收过多一模一样。 m& a, C8 q. n' Q
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今天早晨专科医生在收音机里说,隔着手套毒品都跑到手里甚至身体里面去,可能性比中Lotto Max 还小。# D! Y! P5 `" m- B
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial# D# W7 l1 @2 v ~6 `
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Warnings are being issued in a small summer village west of Edmonton after an Alberta peace officer was exposed to the dangerous opioid fentanyl while patrolling the streets.
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" ~& v7 |& `4 M. `Jeremy Hampton, a member of the Seba Beach Patrol Service, was rushed to hospital after he picked up a vial of powder he found Saturday on a road. Seba Beach is 90 kilometres west of Edmonton, on the western shore of Lake Wabamun.
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"He was just out on regular patrol when he noticed there was a vial on the ground," said Dwight Dawn, president of the Alberta Peace Officer Professional Association. # J; j* F& V5 Y# R0 {; I: _7 x
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Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.0 y8 h- I! @9 {. K6 s$ B" U
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"He got back to his office and started noticing the symptoms," Dawn said."Fortunately for him, he was carrying a naloxone kit on him and was able to inject himself."' \8 F* ?- Z, }" C9 G
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RCMP were brought in to investigate and officers found traces of fentanyl on the dashboard of the peace officer's car and on his ticket books, Dawn said.
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5 R. X% R6 d h! FThe vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.
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"We're not not too sure exactly how the inside of the vehicle got contaminated or how he got contaminated. It's just one of those things," Dawn said. "It's a very dangerous substance.
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"As much as we try to be cautious with it, it takes very little for this to float around in the air and get contaminated."
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' q% r4 {/ U! ]% r0 N7 z" JAfter a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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