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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。- Z! K' V H; e0 }
, ?1 ?* [4 ~& u' Q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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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial
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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.2 K$ t* C- i/ @/ E/ |9 L5 X
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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.5 t i# _2 T0 k
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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.% [ X5 `+ s0 e4 i0 p( G5 p
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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."( ~/ ^9 k2 l( z- }4 t6 r5 i
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'A very dangerous substance'
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The vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.
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: v+ r+ L3 D: _/ r! z"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.9 D, T; _3 M# U3 x* o# [
/ o7 } j/ `0 J# X, k9 X; c"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." 7 g; H+ H, R1 t q3 e6 k3 b, j# b; J( `
. i2 H# j$ e2 z4 `7 `After a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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