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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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| Overdose of OxyContin is serious and may require hospitalization. Occasionally, the individual needs to be temporarily hooked to a ventilator to help him breathe until the OxyContin wears off.
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| Many complications of heroin addiction are related to the unsanitary administration of the drug. Others are due to the inherent properties of the drug, overdose, or intoxicated behavior accompanying drug use.
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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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Crack Overdose

Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of crack usage is the high risk of overdose.
Since crack is more potent than street cocaine, it enters the bloodstream
more quickly and in higher concentrations. This is particularly risky since
smoking the drug makes it difficult to estimate dosage. The most frequent
overdose that people experience when smoking crack cocaine is on the mild
side and is felt as very rapid heart beat and hyperventilation. These reactions
are often accompanied by a feeling of impending death. Although most people
survive, several thousand are killed by overdosing on crack every year. All
forms of cocaine and crack cocaine use have been linked with heart failure
in users, even healthy users.
Crack is made from cocaine in a process called freebasing, in which cocaine
powder is cooked with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to create
rocks, chips, or chunks that can be smoked. The term crack refers to the crackling
sound that is heard when the mixture is smoked. Crack is usually smoked in
a pipe. Because it's smoked, crack cocaine effects are felt more quickly and
they are more intense than those of powder cocaine. However, the effects of
smoked crack are shorter lived than the effects of snorted powder cocaine.
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