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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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| Overdose deaths can be intentional or unintentional, and they can result from both licit and illicit drug abuse. Drugs commonly implicated in overdose deaths are alcohol, psychoactive medications, analgesics, illicit drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and multiple drugs taken concomitantly.
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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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| Methadone is one of the strongest opiates. It has a slow onset of action and a long half-life and causes severe respiratory depression which is usually the cause of death.
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Vicodin Overdose
Vicodin is one of the most commonly abused prescription pain medications
today. One of the most widely prescribed medications, Vicodin and its related
medications, loricet, loritab percodan, and oxycontin are opioid-based pain
medications. Vicodin is a derivative of opium, which also used to manufacture
heroin. Vicodin successfully diminishes pain, but it is highly addictive and
withdrawal symptoms of Vicodin addiction are very similar to the pain it was
relieving. Vicodin combines a narcotic analgesic (painkiller) and cough reliever
with a non-narcotic analgesic for the relief of moderate to moderately severe
pain. If you take Vicodin over a long period of time, you can become mentally
and physically addicted to it, and you may find that it no longer works for
you at the prescribed dosage. Vicodin taken in excess can have serious consequences.
A severe overdose of Vicodin can be fatal. If you suspect an overdose, seek
emergency medical treatment immediately.
Symptoms of a Vicodin Overdose include:
- blood disorders
- bluish tinge to skin
- cold and clammy skin
- extreme sleepiness progressing to a state of unresponsiveness or coma
- general feeling of bodily discomfort
- heart problems
- heavy perspiration
- kidney problems
- limp muscles
- liver failure
- low blood pressure
- nausea
- slow heartbeat
- troubled or slowed breathing
- vomiting
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