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Acute intoxication and illness due to mild analgesics.
Author(s) -
Fournier EP
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.216
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1365-2125
pISSN - 0306-5251
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1980.tb01826.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , drug , drug reaction , acute toxicity , toxicity , incidence (geometry) , adverse effect , drug toxicity , acute illness , emergency medicine , pharmacology , optics , physics
1 Acute intoxication with mild analgesics is relatively uncommon in France. In fact, these drugs have accounted for only about 3.5% of acute drug intoxications seen at the Fernand Widal Hospital, Paris, over the past 10 years. 2 On the other hand, 23% of adverse reactions recorded by a drug monitoring service have been attributed to mild analgesics. 3 It is very difficult to establish the true incidence of acute toxicity and adverse reactions caused by these drugs. They are usually taken without medical supervision; it is often difficult to ascribe toxicity to a single agent when combination products are taken so frequently; and the underlying illness and the use of other drugs must also be considered. 4 The methods currently used to obtain adverse reaction and toxicity data have many disadvantages and shortcomings.