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- ANALOGS:
- Different forms of a chemical or drug structurally related to the parent chemical or drug.
- DELUSIONS:
- False beliefs.
- HALLUCINATION:
- The experience of seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling, or tasting something that is not really there.
- INTUBATION:
- Putting a plastic tube into the lungs through the nose and throat to allow artificial respiration in a person unable to breathe independently.
- RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION:
- The slowing of a person's breathing rate. Severe respiratory depression can cause a person to go into a coma or even stop breathing.
- SEIZURES (EPILEPTIC FITS):
- Bursts of abnormal electrical activity in the brain causing episodic symptoms, including coma or reduced level of awareness, flailing movements of arms and legs, and loss of control of bowels and bladder. Prolonged, untreated seizures may cause brain damage or even death.
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