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Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, [9] or Devil's Breath, [10] is a natural or synthetically produced tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic drug that is used as a medication to treat motion sickness [11] and postoperative nausea and vomiting.
As of 2016, benzodiazepines were most likely to cause fatal overdose in Australia, [20] with diazepam (Valium) being the drug most responsible. [12] While fatal overdoses are highly associated with drugs such as opiates, cocaine and alcohol, [ 2 ] deaths from other drugs such as caffeine are extremely rare.
Hyoscine butylbromide, also known as scopolamine butylbromide [4] and sold under the brandname Buscopan among others, [5] is an anticholinergic medication used to treat abdominal pain, esophageal spasms, bladder spasms, biliary colic, [6] and renal colic.
David Pearce, who allegedly dumped two women at L.A. hospitals after they overdosed in his apartment in 2021, was convicted of two counts of murder and seven counts of sexual assault involving ...
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. Two milligrams of fentanyl, which is roughly the size of a few grains of sand , can ...
U.S. yearly overdose deaths from all drugs. [7] The numbers at the source for the table below are continually updated. So the numbers in the table below may be slightly different. [6] 2021 was a turning point in US history with over 100,000 deaths. [8] Rates below are per 100,000. Population is for July 1 residents. Rate (by itself) is Age ...
Now, new research finds that women who use hormone therapy after age 65 are usually fine to do just that — but the dose and timing of the treatment matter. The study, which was published in ...
The toxic berry of Atropa belladonna which contains the tropane deliriants scopolamine, atropine, and hyoscyamine.. Deliriants are a subclass of hallucinogen.The term was coined in the early 1980s to distinguish these drugs from psychedelics such as LSD and dissociatives such as ketamine, due to their primary effect of causing delirium, as opposed to the more lucid (i.e. rational thought is ...