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 Anhydrous ammonia lands two Screven,Georgia residents in jail on meth charges.
Anhydrous ammonia lands two Screven,Georgia residents in jail on meth charges.
SPRINGFIELD,Georgia ...
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Laney Scheduled For December Trial On Meth Charges.
Laney Scheduled For December Trial On Meth Charges.
Patricia Laney, who was taken into federal custody ...
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Morrison County,Montana's anti-meth efforts slow meth usage numbers.
Morrison County,Montana's anti-meth efforts slow meth usage numbers.
Three methamphetamine related ...
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Meth lab found in local hotel room.
Meth lab found in local hotel room.
Keen observations by two Thatcher,Arizona Police officers Saturday led ...
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Couple pleads guilty to meth lab charges.
Couple pleads guilty to meth lab charges.
SANDUSKY,Ohio
A couple who operated a methamphetamine lab on Maple ...
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Africia becoming Drug Hub.
DEA Chief Warns Africa Becoming Drug Hub
DEA administrator Karen Tandy, left, listens with ...
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"Speed in a can"
’Cocaine’ drink pulled from shelves nationwide
NEW HAVEN, Conneticut. - A Las Vegas company has agreed ...
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Football players arrested on drug charges.
Stout football players arrested on drug charges.
Three UW-Stout football players have been arrested and ...
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'I'll cut your throat andburn house'
A WOMAN threatened to burn down her love rival's house and slash her throat, a ...
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Anti-Drug Groups Turn Eye to Prescription Abuse
Leading anti-drug groups, which for years have been focusing their efforts on illegal drugs like ...
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The other side: Abusing prescriptions
CLEVELAND -- While most people live in a world where the local pharmacists prescribe the ...
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Boy poisoned due to Codeine
A Great Falls woman was arrested Thursday in the near-fatal poisoning of her 3-year-old son, ...
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Codeine products are diverted from legitimate sources and are encountered on the illicit market.
This alkaloid (codeine) is found in opium in concentrations ranging from 0.7 to 2.5 percent.
The human body converts codeine into morphine during digestion.
When injected, 120mg of codeine phosphate produces an analgesic response equivalent to that from 10mg of morphine.
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Codeine Overdose
Everyone's body is different but as little as half a pill when combined with
or other depressants can lower your respiratory system enough to kill you. Taken
in high doses, Codeine alone, can kill you. Codeine can be found in many medications
such as Tylenol #3, Actifed with Codeine, Robitussin A-C, and Empirin #3 for
example.
Codeine is metabolized to morphine and its effects are similar to those of
morphine and other opiate analgesics. Respiratory depression, sedation and miosis
and common symptoms of overdose. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, skeletal
muscle flaccidity, bradycardia, hypotension, and cool, clammy skin. Apnea and
death may ensue; children have had apnea after doses as small as 5 mg/kg. Non-cardiac
pulmonary edema may develop opioid overdose, and monitoring of heart filling
pressure may be helpful.
The symptoms of a Codeine overdose include but are not limited to:
- Slow and shallow breathing
- Clammy skin
- Convulsions
- Coma
- Possible death
- Muscle spasticity
- Loss of breath
- Pinpoint pupils
- Bluish colored - fingernails and lips
- Skin itching
- Spasms of stomach and/or intestinal tract
- Constipation
- Weak pulse
- Low blood pressure
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