01:830:364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tachycardia, Acetaldehyde, Methaqualone
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Symptoms: shakes, seizures, nightmares, confusion, hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rate, elevated blood pressure. Suppression of withdrawal symptoms by benzodiazepines or barbiturates. Withdrawal symptoms can persist for over a year following initiation of abstinence. Repeated withdrawals increase the chances of convulsive seizures and brain damage. Symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, detachment from reality. Other cns sedatives include valium-like drugs (benzodiazepines), barbiturates, In 2014, an all-time high of 30,700 people died from alcohol-related causes, up 37% from 2002. Exceeded total deaths due to opioid overdose, including heroin and all prescription. Every year since 2012, at least 5,000 young people, under the age of 21, die of alcohol- Alcohol-related overdose death related causes, mainly acute alcohol poisoning. Alcohol has dangerous interactions with other drugs, especially the barbiturates. Epidemic of opiate-related overdose deaths in us. 2000-2016 epidemic of abuse of semi-synthetic opiates (oxycontin, percoset, darvon). Nodding off in combination with respiratory indifference is a deadly combination. Naloxone (narcan) blocks access to opiate receptor sites.
