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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。- f" Z5 y& }% j6 \. R& v+ J
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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。( ?% T( k" N; C& l4 D! W
$ m" N2 l0 z- g+ g1 J. ]Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial/ g# e5 R {. u, b" E8 Q, t7 O
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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.- j/ s, s! p) n2 y+ d8 q
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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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"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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8 u% T( G/ A- THampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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+ s8 y! d% u5 I! r! Q. a, ?* f"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."' N" X+ G( D+ ~" R
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'A very dangerous substance'
) k7 k) A) r, k3 i9 h: F! LRCMP 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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The vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.
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0 z0 x1 u- Z6 T, I y) v"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.$ D1 W/ l. b/ _( S, }1 s9 F
, h, n# p* _+ D, ?"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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After a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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