Well I Am Writing an Article for College Newspaper of Various Drugs and the Effects of It’s OD?
Question by Mr V: Well i am writing an article for college newspaper of various drugs and the effects of it’s OD?
are there any forums,or website or articles on net which can be of help to me,i did use google but ti was of no help to me.
if you know of such websites ,please do tell me about it.
Best answer:
Answer by cute girl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_drug_reaction
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Answer by Mathieu
Few things you might want to keep in mind-
Firstly NEVER site wikipedia when you write a paper. And NEVER cite forums or basic articles. They are not reputable. Only uses articles that are from a reputable source like a medical association, a governmental agency, university, and so on. For example: NIH, CDC, AMA, WHO.
Secondly when you are talking about what most people think of as an “overdose” you are not using the correct term. If a person swallows a bottle of pills it is a poisoning, not an overdose.
What an overdose means is that a drug has provoked an extreme response. For example if a person is prescribed 1 mg of lorazepam, an anxiolytic, and they have problems breathing and are suffering respiratory distress that is on overdose. So the amount taken is OK, it is a very normal dose, but what happened was significant. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference between a poisoning and an overdose but typically it is simple. So the term you will be using most of the time in your paper is a poisoning.
Here are some links, I am not sure what type of drugs but I have links for a few. There are from the Merck Manual, a very well respected source of information. If you look under “Toxicity or overdose” you will find your information. Also if there is a prescription medication you want to get information about type in the name of the drug followed by “prescribing information.” It is typically easy to find a PI and there will be a section about poisoning/overdose.
This is the prescribing information for MS Contin (a brand of morphine):
www.purduepharma.com/PI/Prescription/MS_Contin.pdf
Opioids:
http://merck.com/mmpe/sec15/ch198/ch198f.html
Cocaine:
http://merck.com/mmpe/sec15/ch198/ch198j.html?qt=cocaine&alt=sh#sec15-ch198-ch198f-321d
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) AKA paracetamol (Panadol):
http://merck.com/mmpe/sec21/ch326/ch326c.html
General Information:
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec21/ch326/ch326b.html?qt=amphetamine&alt=sh
Information about symptoms and treatment of poisonings:
http://www.merck.com/media/mmpe/pdf/Table_326-8.pdf?qt=amphetamine&alt=sh
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