NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -An overdose is when you take more than the normal or recommended amount of something, often a drug. An overdose may result in serious, harmful symptoms or death. If you take too much of something on purpose, it is called an intentional or deliberate overdose.

Detailed explanation-2: -Drug overdose deaths involving any opioid―prescription opioids (including natural and semi-synthetic opioids and methadone), other synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily fentanyl), and heroin―continued to rise through 2021 with 80, 411 deaths.

Detailed explanation-3: -The following are signs of an overdose: Unresponsive to outside stimulus. Awake, but unable to talk. Breathing is very slow and shallow, erratic, or has stopped. For lighter skinned people, the skin tone turns bluish purple, for darker skinned people, it turns grayish or ashen.

Detailed explanation-4: -More than one substance is taken at the same time. The body is not used to taking a certain substance.