drugs can cause convulsions heart failure and death when taken in large doses
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- Risks: Excessive vomiting, tremors, sweating and anxiety. Taken in high doses with other drugs can cause irregular heartbeat, high body temperature, seizures and heart failure. Long-Term Effects: Suicidal and/or homicidal tendencies, paranoia and cardiovascular collapse.
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Glossary: Drugs and Alcohol Overdosing can lead to convulsions, heart failure, coma and death. The fatal dose varies from person to person, with some reports of acute reactions to as little as 2 milligrams and others of non-fatal 500-milligram doses. Most deaths from overdose have been among injecting users.
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Illegal Drugs and Heart Disease Injecting illegal drugs also can lead to cardiovascular problems, such as collapsed veins and bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves. Many drugs, such as cocaine, heroin and various forms of amphetamine, affect the central nervous system and can alter a user's consciousness.
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- Drug Side Effect. A Prolonged QT Interval is a potentially deadly side effect of some drugs. This strangely named heart disorder is one of the major causes of sudden cardiac death in people who do NOT have the type of heart disease that plugs up the arteries.
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Medicines & treatments centre Illicit drugs, used to get high, may be taken in overdose amounts when a person's metabolism cannot detoxify the drug fast enough to avoid unintended side effects. Exposure to chemicals, plants, and other toxic substances that can cause harm are called poisonings.
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Psychiatric DrugsâSide Effects And long-term use has been proven to create a lifetime of physical and mental damage, a fact ignored by psychiatrists. Common and well-documented side effects of psychiatric drugs include mania, psychosis, hallucinations, depersonalization, suicidal ideation, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. Not only that, but The US Food and Drug Administration admits that probably one to ten percent of all the adverse drug effects are actually reported by patients or physicians.
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- Steroids can also increase cholesterol, fluid retention and high blood pressure that can lead to long-term effects. Steroid users are at increased risk for stroke, heart attack and sudden death.he side effects and unprescribed usage of steroids are what make them dangerous, particularly when the drugs come off the black market and the ingredients are unregulated. Like any drug, the risk of side effects increases with the amount and duration of use.
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- Another thing long-term use of cocaine can do is affect major body systems. An overdose is potentially fatal. In short, cocaine can kill in several different ways. For one thing, cocaine can have adverse affects on the heart, causing arrhythmias and even heart attacks.
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Effects of Drugs and Alcohol on the Human Body Drugs such as cocaine, crack, amphetamines and heroin can cause a distinct spike in regular bodily function. The heart and breathing rate, blood pressure and body temperature notably increase while taking this drug, which requires the injection, snorting or inhalation of the narcotic.
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Emergency medical services/original researchImpact of Temperature Exposure on Stability of Drugs in a Real-World Out-of-Hospital Setting The main stress factors for stored drugs include sunlight, vibration, and extreme temperature. Exposure to such factors in the out-of-hospital EMS setting may lead to decreased stability of stored drugs and unreliable or deleterious clinical effects.
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LONG-TERM EFFECTS In addition to the usual risks associated with cocaine use, crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding. Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases. Continued daily use causes sleep deprivation and loss of appetite, resulting in malnutrition. Smoking crack cocaine also can cause aggressive and paranoid behavior.
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Effects of Drug Abuse on the Body Heroin and prescription drug use can slow or disrupt the heart rate to the point of death. Cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and amphetamines can cause life-threatening effects, including an irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, stroke and cardiac arrest.
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- Mice are generally fed a diet containing low fiber (5%), protein (20%) and fat (5-10%). Feed may be pelleted or powdered. The pelleted feed is supplied as regular, breeder, certified, irradiated or autoclavable. Mice are usually supplied feed free choice and they eat 4-5 g a day (12 g/100 g body weight/day). Water is supplied free choice and they usually drink 3-5 ml a day (1.5 ml/10 g body weight/day).
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- THURSDAY, Nov. 21, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors are being warned that two drugs used in cardiac nuclear stress tests can cause heart attacks and death in patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
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Quaaludes Overdose of Quaaludes can lead to seizures, coma or death. Taking doses of over 300mg can be dangerous for first time users. Depending on the state of the user's tolerance, doses of about 8,000mg per day can be fatal and others on even higher doses (of up to 20,000mg) may survive. Death can result at much lower doses if Quaaludes are taken with alcohol, which is also a central nervous system depressant.
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Drug Use During Pregnancy One example is thalidomide. Several decades ago, this drug caused extreme underdevelopment of arms and legs and defects of the intestine, heart, and blood vessels in the babies of women who took the drug during pregnancy. Some drugs cause birth defects in animals, but the same effects have not been seen in people.
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Top 10 Dog Poisons 1 Prescription anti-inflammatory and pain medications can cause stomach and intestinal ulcers or kidney failure. 2  Antidepressants can cause vomiting and, in more serious instances, serotonin syndrome -- a dangerous condition that raises temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, and may cause seizures.
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- Accidents and Injuries:Drug distorts your perception and thoughts and it would make you do unwarranted acts that you would not do normally. Drugs can increase your chances of getting seriously injured or losing your life through falls and road accidents and can even pose a threat or cause harm to others around you.
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- Effects may also include loss of coordination and limb spasms due to damage to myelin—a protective sheathing around nerve fibers that helps nerves transmit messages in the brain and peripheral nervous system. Inhalants can also cause brain damage by cutting off oxygen flow to the brain. Inhalants can even be lethal. Sniffing highly concentrated amounts of the chemicals in solvents or aerosol sprays can directly cause heart failure within minutes.
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Potassium Potassium can cause stomach upset, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, intestinal gas, and other side effects. Too much potassium is UNSAFE and can cause feelings of burning or tingling, generalized weakness, paralysis, listlessness, dizziness, mental confusion, low blood pressure, irregular heart rhythm, and death.
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Macrobid side effects in elderly Addiction can and probably will be a side effect of the treatment you need for your ailment. Side effects are rarely pleasant.Some drugs can cause seizures, stroke, bleeding, infection, depression, coma, death, yadda yadda.... If your pain is in any way interfering with the quality of your life, then you must take whatever drugs are necessary to relieve it. My doctors have so often left me hanging.ddiction can and probably will be a side effect of the treatment you need for your ailment. Side effects are rarely pleasant.
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- They cause the muscles surrounding the blood vessels in the brain to contract and narrow the blood vessels. The problem is, these medications can also cause coronary artery spasms, heart attacks, stroke, abnormal heart beats, and seizures, weakness, dizziness and several other side effects.
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Substance Abuse Drug overdose may also cause death. Many substances, such as alcohol, tranquilizers, opiates, and stimulants, over time also can produce a phenomenon known as tolerance, where you must use a larger amount of the drug to produce the same level of intoxication.
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NCLEX - ADULT HEALTH PHARMACOLOGY - 739 Potassium chloride administered intravenously must always be diluted in IV fluid and infused This can damage the blood vessels of the brain, heart, and kidneys, resulting in a stroke, heart failure, or kidney failure. High blood pressure may also increase the risk of heart attacks. These problems may be less likely to occur if blood pressure is controlled. Diltiazem is a calcium channel blocker.
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Long-term Effects of LSD As a result, long-term LSD abusers may require large doses of LSD to elicit the desired effects. This can be dangerous, as large LSD doses of more than 400 mcg have been reported to result in life-threatening toxicity. This dangerous situation may comprise: Hyperthermia, or overheating.
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Precautions Do not stop taking this medicine without first checking with your doctor. Stopping suddenly may cause a serious change in heart function. Watch for signs and symptoms of overdose while you are taking this medicine. Follow your doctor's directions carefully. The amount of this medicine needed to help most people is very close to the amount that could cause serious problems from overdose. Some early warning signs of overdose are confusion, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or vision problems. Other signs of overdose are changes in the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat (becoming irregular or slow), palpitations (feeling of pounding in the chest), or fainting. In infants and small children, the earliest signs of overdose are changes in the rate and rhythm of the heartbeat.