Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Capsules   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Capsules

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleveggieM

Registered: 07/25/04
Posts: 17,504
Study says party pills can induce seizures [NZ]
    #5069440 - 12/15/05 11:08 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

December 16, 2005 - stuff.co.nz

A study has condemned the use of herbal party pills, concluding their principal ingredient can cause seizures

Party pills have been sold without regulation since 2000, and are now widely used by young New Zealanders.

The study by a group of Canterbury health professionals, reported in the New Zealand Medical Journal, found that between April and September, 61 patients were admitted on 80 occasions to Christchurch Hospital's emergency department suffering from adverse reaction to the pills.

The patients had taken an average of 4? tablets or capsules, which have the main ingredient 1-benzylpiperazine (BZP).

The patients were found to be suffering from mild to moderate toxicity resulting in insomnia, anxiety, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, dystonia, and urinary retention, with some adverse reactions lasting up to 24 hours.

Of the 61 patients admitted, 15 suffered toxic seizures with two left in a life-threatening condition.

The study highlighted the case of a 16-year-old Christchurch teenager with no history of seizures or drug abuse who took four pills over a 1? hour period.

She collapsed in a crowd suffering from a general seizure, and an ambulance was called.

After another seizure, the girl was given two doses of diazepam, which left her totally unresponsive and in an extremely deep coma.

The girl had three further seizures in Christchurch Hospital's emergency department, and was transferred to an intensive care Unit (ICU).

Twelve hours later she was still slightly comatose, and a week later she reported that she "felt unwell but better."

The study said of greatest concern was that BZP appears to induce toxic seizures in neurologically normal subjects.

Of the patients who had seizures after the ingestion of party drugs, one had known epilepsy, but the remainder had no past history of neurological disorders.

The study concluded BZP could cause unpredictable and serious toxicity in some individuals.

It said patients with seizure disorders, psychiatric illness or coronary disease should avoid BZP as should those taking prescription antidepressants.

Congestion with MDMA or amphetamine should also be avoided, as the combination could lead to fatal toxicity, it said.

The Journal said results from the study should be carefully considered in any discussion on the legal status of piperazine-based party pills.

The Ministry of Health has previously said there was inadequate information about BZP to put stronger controls on its distribution at present.

It has commissioned research into BZP toxicity and studies are under way at the National Poisons Centre and other centres.

A Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) No 3 Bill has also been enacted with a new category of controlled but not banned substances, which includes BZP.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineThePredator
Your a eunich ifyou don't useunix!

Registered: 08/23/05
Posts: 542
Last seen: 17 years, 9 months
Re: Study says party pills can induce seizures [NZ] [Re: veggie]
    #5072507 - 12/16/05 05:13 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Teach them to not take more than they can handel.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Capsules   Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Capsules


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Teen near death from party pills [NZ] veggieM 3,226 6 05/25/05 11:25 PM
by veggie
* Party pills: BZP safety review [NZ] veggieM 827 0 01/25/06 10:13 PM
by veggie
* Party pills have their place [NZ] veggieM 892 0 07/19/05 01:36 PM
by veggie
* Restraints on party pills delayed [NZ] veggieM 830 2 04/02/05 10:02 PM
by faslimy
* Human guinea pigs for party pill [NZ] veggieM 1,277 5 12/02/05 10:31 PM
by Mushroom_Mike
* Viagra's the top party pill now veggieM 650 0 11/26/05 08:36 PM
by veggie
* Dean pleased party pill ad complaint upheld motamanM 431 0 07/08/06 07:48 AM
by motaman
* Dead man’s family calls for party pills ban motamanM 2,214 10 10/19/06 11:59 PM
by kake

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
883 topic views. 0 members, 4 guests and 9 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.02 seconds spending 0.005 seconds on 12 queries.