Non-opioid drug overdose how it will be treated.

  

                               

Bruce wallace associate professor at the university at the University of Victoria who co-created the drug checking project. And the project finding is alarming because non-opioid overdose can’t be treated with naloxone.

Harm reduction team have seen increased non-opioid overdoses.

Benzodiazepine which are used to treat anxiety.

An animal sedative toxic to humans.

This substances are overdosed before but they are becoming more persistent during pandemic.

Currently naloxone is admin istered to patient who are overdosed but it dosent work because naloxone work by removing opioid from opioid receptors.

Due to untreatable overdosed situation there is no any other antagonist that will work for non-opioid overdose so person breath can’t be reversed and lack of oxygen can cause severe brain damage and they can remain semi-conscious and at risk for hour’s it could also lead to brain death.

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