1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
2Junior Resident, Department of Pathology, Thanjavur medical college, Thanjavur, India
3Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
*Corresponding author: Peranantham S, Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, JIPMER, Puducherry, India. Contact no: +91 9489666402, Email: perambbs@gmail.com
Online published on 19 January, 2015.
A very dangerous activity among youth and young adults is the indiscriminate mixing and sharing of prescription drugs, often in combination with alcohol or other drugs. The effects of these combinations of substances can be fatal. A 28 years old adult male with alleged history of diazepam and paraquat poisoning and expired on the next day. Diazepam even though considered to be a safer drug, has risk of drug abuse and is fatal when taken in overdose along with other central nervous system depressants.
Diazepam, Paraquat, Central Nervous System
