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| Up to 10,000 patients a year are being treated in Victorian hospitals for drug overdoses, new statistics show. And most have overdosed on prescription or legal drugs, including tranquillisers, anti-depressants and analgesics.
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| Being of similar structure, the opiate molecules occupy many of the same nerve-receptor sites and bring on the same analgesic effect as the body's natural painkillers.
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| In 1992 there were 131 deaths attributed directly to methadone overdose.
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| Although national rates for hospital emergency department (ED) mentions of club drugs were low in 2002 (with none exceeding 2 mentions per 100,000 population) and no increases were measured from 2001 to 2002, significant increases in certain club drug mentions were apparent from 1995 to 2002. MDMA ED mentions, for example, increased from 421 in 1995 to 4,026 in 2002; and GHB ED mentions increased from 145 in 1995 to 3,330 in 2002.
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Cocaine Overdose
The symptoms of a cocaine overdose are intense and generally short in nature.
Although fairly uncommon, people do die from cocaine overdose. The exact amount
of cocaine that causes an overdose varies from person to person and is dependent
on a variety of factors including weight, metabolism, health etc. Cocaine
is often "cut" with various adulterants. This increases the risk
of overdose, since the purity of cocaine is difficult to determine. An overdose
from cocaine can cause a serious increase in blood pressure, which as a result,
bleeding in the brain occurs leading to a higher possibility of a stroke.
A cocaine overdose can cause heart and respirator problems resulting in death.
Symptoms of cocaine overdose may include some or all of the following:
- Dangerous or fatal rise in body temperature
- Seizures
- Heart attack
- Brain hemorrhage
- Kidney failure
- Stroke
- Repeated convulsions
- Tremors
- Delirium
- Death
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