Toxicology
Clinical Review
Who Overdoses on Opioids at a VA Emergency Department?
Case Reports
Case Studies in Toxicology: Drink the Water, but Don’t Eat the Paint
Clinical Review
First EDition: Emergency Physicians’ Rates of Opioid Prescribing, more
Clinical Review
The New Opioid Epidemic: Prescriptions, Synthetics, and Street Drugs
Opioid users are turning to illicit, ultra-potent synthetic opioids, and those who overdose may not respond to typical doses of naloxone....
Commentary
The New Opioid Epidemic and the Law of Unintended Consequences
In this issue of EM, EP-toxicologists Rama Rao, MD, and Lewis Nelson, MD, review the salient features of the current opioid epidemic in the United...
Case Reports
Case Studies in Toxicology: The Perils of Playing Catch-up
While awaiting evaluation for gastric discomfort, a 16-year-old girl experienced a sudden onset of generalized seizure...
Clinical Review
First EDition: Liquid Nicotine Risks, more
Commentary
A Holiday Visit to the ED (With Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)
Case Reports
Too Much of a Good Thing: Weakness, Dysphagia, and Stridor After Botulinum Toxin Injections
Clinical Review
Holiday Poisonings
Case Reports
Case Studies in Toxicology: Somehow…It’s Always Lupus
A 14-year-old girl presented with normal mental status following an intentional overdose. Within 30 minutes of arrival, she developed profound...