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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。! g# W+ i. D7 V7 I
, C- d6 {% X: L: ]( s1 A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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: O0 M; }: S7 d" P0 q1 c6 RAlberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial3 Y. r i! s6 c ?! F# H4 v) R
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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.) i7 L( @+ e6 g Z; O! O' j
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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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f4 L$ i$ g% g) X: zHampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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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."4 J8 n- Y) H4 s
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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.( Z/ m1 d" Y @% ^: H
& U) }* Q) S4 |" PThe vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.9 F: g3 u0 d$ x" n% s
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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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: c) b6 Q4 @, f"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." ! K0 u' x3 `, _1 ~* Q X( }
) S+ {2 q# K1 ZAfter a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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