Your body is a delicately balanced chemical system, and if you take too much of a drug you destroy that balance. That’s what happens when you overdose. These week on Reactions, learn how to spot an overdose and the ways different types of drugs wreak havoc in your brain.
Sources:
- Fentanyl is deadlier than heroin
- The fentanyl story
- Fentanyl abuse
- Poisoning with illicit substances
- Methamphetamines
- Methamphetamine versus cocaine
- Stimulant abuse
- What happens when you overdose
- Alcohol overdose
- Benzodiazapene
- Alcohol and the brain
- Benzos and opioids
- Neurotransmitter overview
- Neurotransmitters and alcohol
- The Brain, McGill University
- Charcoal and acetylcysteine for overdose
- Acetaminophen overdose
- Cocaine effects
- Meth and the blood-brain barrier
- GABA binding after taking benzos
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