drug overdose
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ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than recommended amount
Key facts
- Other names
- Overdose, OD, hotshot, wasted, intoxication, gassed, medicinal poisoning
- Specialty
- Toxicology , emergency medicine
- Symptoms
- Vary depending on the drug and the amount used Commonly: Hematemesis , Seizures , Pale skin
- Complications
- Neurological damage Heart failure Liver failure Stroke Coma Brain death
- Causes
- Miscalculation Misjudgement Peer pressure Addiction Depression Anxiety Suicidal ideation Physical pain Stress
- Risk factors
- Trauma Physical abuse Sexual abuse Child abuse Bullying Intravenous drug use
- Differential diagnosis
- Pulmonary aspiration Foreign body aspiration Heart attack Epilepsy
- Treatment
- Activated charcoal Stomach pump Antidotes
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
29,180 papers- Drug Overdose, Loss of Consciousness, and Compartment Syndrome: A Life-Threatening Combination.Journal of emergency nursing · 2020
- Drug Overdose-Induced Coma Blisters: Pathophysiology and Clinical and Forensic Diagnosis.Current drug research reviews · 2019
- Drug Overdose Deaths Among Medicaid Beneficiaries.JAMA health forum · 2024
- Pharmacokinetics of drug overdose.Clinics in laboratory medicine · 1990
- Drug Overdose Mortality of Residents and Visitors to Cities.Substance use & misuse · 2023
via PubMed
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- A84
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Encyclopedic overview
A drug overdose (overdose or OD) is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended. Typically the term is applied for cases when a risk to health is a potential result. An overdose may result in a toxic state or death.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “drug overdose” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.