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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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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。( w& l% f+ }7 p5 }% w9 r/ h
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial! \( x# }) K5 R5 I5 c/ p4 S' S
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) g7 y% W0 C' V( {# `' y9 N# f: EWarnings 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.% g% L9 H; f3 U6 b% A/ |- j: U- W
' A8 c* h- d: e8 jJeremy 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.; q* d$ \$ \6 f4 ~
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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.& q3 N( ?+ y# l* ~* q
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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."( Y$ D, \% P3 X5 O* _7 O, b/ N
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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." t" s! J/ h7 g. a% a
: @+ p& y0 M" [4 FThe vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.
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5 C% V& d. i, y5 Z+ M' h"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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* H8 S6 L/ a% @" u: hAfter a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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