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Symptoms and Treatment of Specific Poisons 

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*Inclusion of one poison with another (eg, toluene with benzene) in a single row indicates that the terms are synonymous, that the poisons are chemically related, or that one poison is an ingredient or impurity of the other.

^†Physicians should be aware of people who smuggle plastic bags of cocaine in the GI tract (through the mouth or rectum) or the vagina (so-called packers) and people who hurriedly ingest poorly wrapped packs of drugs to avoid criminal consequences when being pursued by police (so-called stuffers).

Last full review/revision April 2009 by Gerald F. O’Malley, DO

Content last modified April 2009