When overcorned with hashish, severe impairment of consciousness occurs, acute psychosis occurs with panic attacks. Man becomes completely disoriented. How to recognize intoxication and correctly provide first aid?
Overdose with hashish
Immediately after smoking hash, narcotic intoxication develops, which lasts 2-4 hours. The severity of symptoms depends on the number of substances taken. When a high dose of the drug is used, complications develop that can lead to death.
It has been experimentally established that the minimum narcogenic dose of hash is 50 μg tetrahydrocannabinol( THC) per 1 kg of weight. The psychotropic effect is manifested as a result of taking 150-200 μg / kg. Doses of 300 mcg / kg and higher cause gross mental disorders.
The main danger is that in chemistry, chemicals that enhance the effect of the drug are often added. As a result, the symptoms of overdose significantly heavier, as well as subsequent treatment.
After 3-4 hours a person becomes drowsy and absolutely indifferent to everything that is happening. However, the condition as a result of an overdose proceeds in a different way, it often adds severe poisoning.
A person suffers from vomiting, dizziness, coughing. In parallel, acute psychosis can develop, in which there are hallucinations that threaten life, panic horror.
The patient completely loses temporal and spatial orientation. He begins to pose a threat to his own life and the safety of others. He needs immediate medical attention.
How to recognize
The condition resulting from a hashish overdose is very dangerous. A person is in an excited state, his heartbeat and blood pressure are greatly increased. The patient becomes very aggressive, epileptic seizures are possible.
To surrounding marijuana overdose, the following symptoms help:
- dilated pupils that do not respond to light;
- red face;
- dry mucous;
- increased appetite;The voice is hoarse;
- rapid pulse;
- high pressure;
- pain in the heart;
- convulsions and trembling in the body;
- chills and fever;
- nonsense, obsessive thoughts;
- anxiety;
- no response to irritants;
- drowsiness.
The excited state is quickly replaced by auditory and visual hallucinations, in which a person is often haunted by danger. He may even feel that he is already dead.
The mood of a patient with an overdose is unpredictable and changes very quickly. He can be cheerful, laugh, and the next second - terrified without any reason. Talking to a person becomes useless: he answers questions inadvertently, his facial expressions become inadequate.
Overdose with hashish causes severe mental disorders, because of which the patient becomes socially dangerous and can cause harm to someone close to him or herself. He does not recognize anyone, but instead of acquaintances he sees some evil people who try to offend him. For this reason, the patient becomes very aggressive, and it is almost impossible to calm him down.
With the development of intoxication, hallucinations and panic attacks develop. Simultaneously, the perception of time is distorted - it starts to flow more slowly.
These symptoms persist for a long time, and a clear consciousness to the person returns only after a few days. After normalization of well-being, the patient has almost no memory of previous events. Memories are of a fragmentary nature, hallucinatory and real experiences are intertwined in them.
First aid
When the first signs of a "overdose" of hashish appear, you must immediately call an ambulance. While doctors have not arrived, the patient should provide first aid.
These measures will help wait for doctors who hospitalize the patient in a medical institution. In the absence of first aid, the victim may die from cardiac arrest.
Treatment of
When providing emergency assistance with an overdose of hashish, the most important activities are:
- Providing airway patency.
- Elimination of coma.
- Anticonvulsant therapy.
- Emergency temperature reduction( with hyperemia).
- Correction of mental disorders.
With severe tachycardia, the patient is prescribed beta-blockers. To increase the pressure, he is put a dropper with a solution of electrolytes. If this does not help and there is a collapse, the person is given shock doses of dobutamine.
Consequences of
Overdose with hashish leads to serious consequences and complications. There are no official statistics on the number of deaths. However, there are data from some researchers, according to which people in this state have thrombi.
Lethal outcome often occurs as a result of myocardial infarction. In addition, in acute psychosis, people often commit suicide attempts without reporting their actions.
Also as a result of cannabinoid poisoning, acute psychosis develops and a schizophrenic process is triggered. Personality changes lead to mental discomfort, problems with social adaptation. In order to restore a formal connection with people and cheer up, a person after starting out of the hospital again begins to smoke hashish.
Signs of a schizophrenic process very quickly develop - disorders of thinking, emotional-volitional disorders. A person begins to degrade socially. Therefore, all the allegations that marijuana is an easy and harmless drug can not withstand any criticism.