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Drug overdose:

A drug overdose is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended. Typically it is used for cases when a risk to health will potentially result. An overdose may result in a toxic state or death.

The word "overdose" implies that there is a common safe dosage and usage for the drug; therefore, the term is commonly only applied to drugs, not poisons, even though some poisons are harmless at a low enough dosage. Drug overdose is caused to commit suicide, the result of intentional or unintentional misuse of medication. Intentional misuse leading to overdose can include using prescribed or unprescribed drugs in excessive quantities in an attempt to produce euphoria. Usage of illicit drugs of unexpected purity, in large quantities, or after a period of drug abstinence can also induce overdose. Cocaine users who inject intravenously can easily overdose accidentally, as the margin between a pleasurable drug sensation and an overdose is small. Unintentional misuse can include errors in dosage caused by failure to read or understand product labels. Accidental overdoses may also be the result of over-prescription, failure to recognize a drug's active ingredient, or unwitting ingestion by children. A common unintentional overdose in young children involves multi-vitamins containing iron.

Signs and Symptoms:

Signs and symptoms of an overdose vary depending on the drug or exposure to toxins. The symptoms can often be divided into differing toxidromes. This can help one determine what class of drug or toxin is causing the difficulties.

Symptoms of opioid overdoses include slow breathing, heart rate and pulse. Opioid overdoses can also cause pinpoint pupils, and blue lips and nails due to low levels of oxygen in the blood. A person experiencing an opioid overdose might also have muscle spasms, seizures and decreased consciousness. A person experiencing an opiate overdose usually will not wake up even if their name is called or if they are shaken vigorously.

Causes:

Using drugs at an early age can cause changes in the developing brain and increase the likelihood of progressing to drug addiction. Taking a highly addictive drug. Some drugs, such as stimulants, cocaine or opioid painkillers, may result in faster development of addiction than other drugs.

Drugs that are psychoactive, such as cannabis, alcohol, ecstasy and heroin, have the ability to affect your mood. They can arouse certain emotions or dampen down others. This may be why you use them. The changes in your mood or behavior caused by drugs are the result of changes to your brain.

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New Cholesterol-bringing down Medication could help Patients Powerless to take Statins

Another class of oral cholesterol-bringing down medication could help patients powerless to take statins because of reactions. The discoveries originate from the biggest examination to date to test the viability and wellbeing of bempedoic corrosive, an oral drug—yet to be endorsed in Europe—that hinders the body's capacity to make the structure squares of cholesterol.

The exploration, distributed reports on discoveries from in excess of 2,200 patients and is the first to quantify the security and viability of the new treatment against fake treatment in patients with an expanded danger of heart assault and stroke.

An excessive amount of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (generally called "bad cholesterol") in the blood can prompt plaques that stop up veins and increment the shot of heart assault and stroke. Numerous patients at higher hazard, for example, those with diabetes or acquired conditions, or the individuals who have recently had heart assault or stroke, are recommended cholesterol-bringing down medications, similar to statins, to decrease their hazard.

Like statins, bempedoic corrosive works by obstructing a key compound utilized by the body to make cholesterol, for this situation a chemical called ATP-citrate lyase. In the most recent investigation, a sum of 2,230 patients with elevated cholesterol levels (at any rate 1.8 mmol/L or 70 mg/dL) who were taking cholesterol-bringing down medications (high-or moderate-force portion statins or potentially ezetimibe) were arbitrarily picked to get either the new treatment or fake treatment for 1 year.

Patients were drawn from the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Canada, and the United States, and were on fluctuating forces of cholesterol-bringing down treatment regimens. The preliminary additionally incorporated a little extent of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, an acquired condition which causes expanded cholesterol levels and raises the danger of cardiovascular illness and strokes. Following 3 months of treatment, analysts found that bempedoic corrosive diminished patients' LDL cholesterol levels from gauge by a normal of 18.1% contrasted with the fake treatment gathering. Moreover, they found that the treatment was viable regardless of the force of the patient's current cholesterol-bringing down treatment.

The treatment was likewise appeared to be all around endured by patients, with some expanded frequency of gout—because of slight increments in dimensions of uric corrosive in the blood—however no expanded rate of genuine wellbeing conditions between the two gatherings.

By and large, these most recent investigations demonstrate that not exclusively is the treatment for the most part very much endured being equivalent with fake treatment, and conceivably safe over longer periods, however, that when added to high-force statin treatment it can additionally lessen LDL cholesterol levels. The continuous preliminary, called 'CLEAR OUTCOMES', is extraordinarily trying considerably longer-term security and whether this methodology lessens cardiovascular malady notwithstanding bringing down cholesterol.