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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。
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2 W+ V5 C; B9 u! ?% U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。
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial
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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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- g7 y4 T( W+ v5 ]( ^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.
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Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.' B, F/ {& V- z" c& x
5 Y* s c2 h2 e"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."
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'A very dangerous substance'
1 w, I/ Y: |4 L: yRCMP 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.! w/ `# c0 \7 r* X2 }% I$ @
4 {$ ?9 w5 X# G0 p- C# s: EThe vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl. i; M2 A2 Z6 d1 q9 O
/ y/ M; _" e% C6 l2 h3 O"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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$ {4 V( V: R0 j"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." , a: M& ]9 Z, c3 H; J, W% M) Z# s
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After a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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