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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。7 v% q8 K' C. h6 S* y3 H
' O/ n( U& {; F" X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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, N. Y5 R3 c0 | x& }+ OAlberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial
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( V/ N0 t X( ~" @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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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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1 J7 h: M7 u: |9 b"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. , k. p2 S' b/ l. w
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Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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8 q% y. {9 M ? A2 t"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'
* z2 H5 m! m" ? }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.6 o( K ^% C" x/ b) g2 K
5 M3 [0 ^3 g( r1 o+ NThe 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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) E+ U0 C* c' j& S% p"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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" ~" y9 c. E8 i: jAfter a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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