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Physostigmine, a cholinergic drug that readily crosses the blood–brain barrier, has been used as an antidote to treat the central nervous system depression symptoms of a scopolamine overdose. [33] Other than this supportive treatment, gastric lavage and induced emesis (vomiting) are usually recommended as treatments for oral overdoses. [32]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Sometimes they advertise their product by barking at you. Ohio recorded 680 heroin overdose deaths in 2012, up 60 percent over the previous year, with one public health advocate telling a local newspaper that Cincinnati and its suburbs suffered a fatal overdose every other day. Just over the Ohio River the picture is just as bleak.
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.
Image credits: debdeman #7. Not me but my mother. My mom bought the travel insurance on her Disneyworld trip because she is bipolar and thought if she had a bad day they would get a refund.
This is an increase from 2016 where over 64,000 died from drug overdose, and opioids were involved in over 42,000. [66] In 2017, the five states with the highest rates of death due to drug overdose were West Virginia (57.8 per 100,000), Ohio (46.3 per 100,000), Pennsylvania (44.3 per 100,000), Kentucky (37.2 per 100,000), and New Hampshire (37. ...