pill overdose
Too many tablets
A pill overdose is taking more pills than prescribed or safe, whether accidentally or intentionally.
The phrase often implies a suicide attempt or drug abuse scenario: She was hospitalized after a pill overdose.
Medical contexts may specify the substance—acetaminophen overdose, opioid overdose—but pill overdose leaves the particular drug unspecified.
- toxicCapable of causing harm
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- emergency roomHospital crisis department
- stomachDigestive organ below chest
- stomach pumpingExtracting contents via tube
activated charcoal · pump · hospital · unconscious · bottles · swallow · poison · poison control · control · ambulance · naloxone · charcoal · vomit · lethal · accidental · intentional · suicide attempt · cry for help
- overdosenaloxone, Narcan, toxicity, antidote, alcohol poisoning
- poisoningarsenic poisoning, cyanide poisoning, food poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning, lead poisoning
- despair deathssuicide, alcoholism, alcohol poisoning, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic
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Inadequate medication quantity
therapeutic dose · recommended dose · microdose · safe dose · missed dose
pill overdosetherapeutic use
Employing something for healing
drug safety · recovery · cure
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