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TUINAL AS A DRUG OF ABUSE
Author(s) -
Dymock Robert B.,
James Ross A.,
Lokan Robert J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1980.tb112201.x
Subject(s) - accidental , medicine , substance abuse , alcohol abuse , psychiatry , acoustics , physics
Six case reports are presented to illustrate the problems of abuse of Tuinal (equal parts of sodium quinalbarbitone and sodium amylobarbitone). Over a four‐year period in South Australia, Tuinal has risen from causing no deaths to be second only to pentobarbitone as a cause of death. While deaths from pentobarbitone overdosage are largely suicidal, Tuinal deaths are largely accidental, the result of a lack of tolerance in combination with alcohol potentiation.