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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。3 ~0 f) ?4 k! p; Q1 v5 H4 h
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial
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% b! C( i; {1 rWarnings 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.# J0 k4 V; c. Z* C* _1 M
/ q1 D/ F) Q& l. @$ h( \6 wJeremy 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.1 U' t( q* \4 N
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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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2 l4 Q& f0 d% |Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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$ H1 f$ W2 z$ [1 W( |6 v9 o"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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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.+ _9 `6 ?9 `7 [$ }' g: }% R7 O
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The 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.& \4 v9 @) f5 t0 F
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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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After a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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