I'm doing a project on the effects of prescription painkillers and of overdoses of the medicines. Is at hand a specific way to find out the toxic dose of them? I know for some (like ibuprofen) a specific lethal dose won't be available, but for some (such as acetominphen and codeine), I'm sure in that must be a Poison Control database around somewhere.Is here a passageway to determine the noxious dose of a tablets?
I think you should be capable of find an LD50 for nearly any compound that is toxic, including most drugs. You might try looking on an MSDS sheet for the compounds.The LD50 is the dosage that kill 50% of the test animals. Don't know whether this is what you're after, but it might comfort...
The amount of a drug that it would take to slay someone varys with the subject. Their elevation, weight., metabolism, diet, robustness, and many other variables factor contained by to how much is lethal.An overdose is simply taking more than is prescribed..and i.e. on every bottle.
If they die when you give it to the merciful... then it be a lethal dose.
look them up at the library "Physicians Desk Reference"
Some drugs own an LD50 (a dose that kills partially the test subjects) published contained by their animal studies. It's considered poor form to go around bloodbath people to find out this information, so it's once in a while published. With unfortunate experience one get a vague concept, but individual variations are surprisingly far-reaching, and the number of test subjects on whom reliable information is available is restricted. Snatches of information can be found in the PDR and other widely available reference as well as surrounded by standard toxicology texts, but if you're looking for a simple table you're probable to be disappointed.
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