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Illicit drugs including Overdose Symptoms and Conditions

What is it?

  • Marijuana, hashish and other cannabis-containing substances
  • K2, Spice and bath salts (synthetic cannabinoids and substituted or synthetic cathinones)
  • Amphetamines:
    • Cocaine
    • Meth (methamphetamine)
    • Methylphenidate
    • Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine
  • ‘Club’ drugs:
    • Ecstasy or molly (MDMA)
    • Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB)
    • Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol-roofie)
    • Ketamine
  • Hallucinogens:
    • Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
    • Phencyclidine (PCP)
  • Hypnotics and anxiolytic medication:
    • Etizolam
  • Bronchodilator (asthma) medication:
    • Clenbuterol
  • Inhalants:
    • Glue
    • Paint thinners
    • Correction fluid
    • Felt tip marker fluid
    • Gasoline
    • Cleaning fluids
    • Household aerosol products

Groups identified as being at high-risk for illicit drug overdose include:

  • Injecting drug misusers (especially during first use of opioids and opioid misusers who have HIV or liver disease);
  • Multiple drug misusers (especially when sedatives are used in combination with opioids or benzodiazepines);
  • Alcohol misusers (supplementary effect with opioids or benzodiazepines and formation of coca-ethylene with cocaine);
  • Male sex;
  • People dependent on opioids;
  • People with reduced tolerance to opioids (e.g. those released from prison, discharged from inpatient or residential detoxification, or have stopped dependent opioid use);
  • Drug users who use on their own (fatal overdose risk increased).

An ambulance should be called in all cases of suspected overdose.

The Pharmaceutical Journal, PJ, 2 May 2015, Vol 294, No 7860;294(7860):
DOI:10.1211/PJ.2015.20068355

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