may lead to acute intoxication, dependence or psychosis but some reports suggest that it may be associated with the type of perceptual disorder usually described after hallucinogen use.1 Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD) is an uncommon or rare consequence of ‘classical’ hallucinogen misuse. Patients experience persistent and distressing perceptual changes, such as visual distor...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to investigate the effect of alcohol intoxication on clinical presentation of hospitalised adult trauma patients at a Level I trauma centre using propensity score matching. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS Detailed data of 929 hospitalised adult trauma patients with alcohol intoxication, aged 20-65 years, and 10 104 correspondin...

hydrocarbons are ubiquitous in daily life and include plant and animal fats, alcohols, solvents, natural gas, petroleum derivates. majority of intoxication reports of hydrocarbons are due to inhalation or ingestion, but there is few reports about intravenous injection of gasoline. we report a 58 year-old man who injected gasoline intravenously for suicide. he developed soft tissue necrosis of f...

Water is necessary for human cells to function properly. However, consuming more water than might lead overhydration, which could have major negative effects on one's health. intoxication, also known as dilutional hyponatremia, only occurs when a person consumes their kidneys can ordinarily excrete. If the balance between (fluid) and electrolytes not kept, dehydration overhydration cause morbid...

For many years, the Czech media have been publishing materials pointing to advantages of cannabis drugs and calling for their legalisation. The phrase “recreational use” is used in this context. This misleading; a person intoxicated by drug not “recreated” during intoxication or after it effects subsided. Memory, concentration performance are, on contrary, weakened at that time. Legalization wo...

We report a case of methanol intoxication, which was not distinguished from ethylene glycol intoxication during treatment. A 65-year-old man was transferred to our emergency department because of drowsiness and remarkable metabolic acidosis. He was intubated because his consciousness disturbance worsened. The diagnosis was suspected as methanol or ethylene glycol intoxication in addition to eth...

In this paper we present a study of the influence of alcohol intoxication on an automatic speaker verification system. It is widely known that alcohol intoxication affects one’s speech in many ways, but it remains to be studied how well a system can recognise a person affected by alcohol intoxication. Using the Alcohol Language Corpus as speech database and a text-independent GMM-UBM speaker ve...

Drug intoxication in children and adolescents is not uncommon in Korea. But the tendency of intoxication is changing with some factors, such as national surveillance system, Naderism and increasing concern among physicians. But the death rate of intoxication among adolescents is increasing in spite of decreasing total death rate of intoxication among children and adolescents. Therefore the phys...

aluminum phosphide (alp) is a solid fumigant which is widely used for a suicide attempt in iran. although neurologic symptoms are commonly reported, cerebrovascular stenosis is rare in alp poisoning. we described ischemic stroke as a delayed complication of alp intoxication. a 30-year-old man was admitted because of sudden onset left side hemiplegia, 11 days after intentional ingestion of three...