Drug Overdose

Excessive use of drugs and chemical substances may be accidental or deliberate. Overdose occurs when you take prescription medications or over-the-counter medications that exceeds the recommended medical dose for a person. However, some people may be more sensitive to certain medications, so the upper limit of the range of drug treatment may be toxic to them.

An overuse of illegal drugs may consume excessive drugs if the drug is not detoxified, even if the drug is detoxified as quickly as possible to avoid unintended side effects.

It is called poisoning that there is a possibility of harm resulting from exposure to chemical substances, plants, and other harmful substances. The higher the dose or the longer the exposure time, the more serious the addiction will be. Two examples are carbon monoxide poisoning and mushroom poisoning

Overdose may involve people of all ages. Among infants (crawling age to about 5 years old) and the most common among teenagers and children in their 30s

In 2014, there were deaths due to drug overdose of over 47,055 in the United States. Excessive opioid death including prescription opioids and heroin caused more than 28,000 deaths in the same year. More than half of these deaths are due to prescription opioids

The cause of overdose may be accidental overuse or intentional abuse. The reason for accidental overdose is to swallow medications that mentally disabled infants and adults have. Adults (especially the elderly and those taking more than one medicine) may accidentally take erroneous medications or take medication with the wrong dosage. Intentional overdosage is to achieve the desired effect, to be a high value or harm yourself.

Infants may accidentally swallow drugs because of curiosity about the medicine they have found. Children under 5 years old (especially from 6 months to 3 years old) tend to put everything they find in their mouths. Overdose in this age group is usually caused by someone erroneously putting the medicine in the reach of children. Young children often share medicines with other children. Therefore, if one child is drinking too much and you think that other children are nearby, other children may take these medicines.

Young people and adults are more likely to overuse one or more medications to harm themselves. Trying to hurt yourself may represent attempted suicide. People who intentionally overdosed drugs often have a potential mental health condition. These conditions may or may not have been diagnosed

Death due to overdose is defined as the number of deaths due to drug overdose per 100,000 population. Death due to overdose means that excessive intake is the main cause, either intentionally or intentionally. ICD - 10 codes X40 - X44, X60 - X64, X85, and Y10 - Y14 are included due to potential cause of death. For the most part of the past 20 years, New Mexico's drug overdose was one of the highest in the United States. Since 1990, the death rate in New Mexico State has more than tripled. The number of deaths from illegal drugs has stabilized over the past 10 years, but the number of deaths due to prescription drugs (especially opioid analgesics) has dramatically increased. In addition to high mortality rate, drug abuse is one of the most expensive health problems in the United States. In 2007 it was estimated that opioid abuse, dependency and abuse of prescription drugs resulted in a loss of $ 890 million in New Mexico. ^ 1 ^]] ---- {{class. SmallerFont # is Birnbaum et al. It is based on domestic law derived by. (2011)

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