Enemy of the people

[VonMeister]

Isn't this why medicine is measured in milligrams? What percentage of prescription drugs can kill you in doses of 2 grams? Nearly all of them??

OTC multi-vitamins can be dangerous at these levels.

Virus Drug Touted by Trump, Musk Can Kill In Just Two Grams

www.msn.com

 

[GWS_2]

That's fairly hysterical.

I posted this elsewhere but one of the nurses my wife works with was almost assaulted by a group of screaming hysterians (yes, I just made that word up) because she was wearing scrubs in public. Torches and pitchforks next. Kill the healthcare workers.

 

[kidfury]

I’ve taken chloroquine a couple of times. Aralen. Gives you weird(er) dreams.

 

[Autoprax]

2000 milligrams?

Does that help?

 

[kidfury]

Usual dose is 1000mg per day

 

[sirfun]

Enemy of the people

 

[kidfury]

If 1000mg is the usual dose and just double that is potentially fatal, then that would be unusual, I would think

 

[GWS_2]

2000 milligrams?

Does that help?

Sounds like a solid starter dose if you ever manage to score some opioids.

 

[GWS_2]

If 1000mg is the usual dose and just double that is potentially fatal, then that would be unusual, I would think

That's actually a good point. It would definitely have to be Doctor administered. You couldn't send someone home with a bottle of 30 1000mg tabs.

 

[manbearpig]

Isn’t malaria medication notoriously dangerous, or at least for its side effects?

16 year old woman who had severe poisoning from 1.95g, would have been dead without medical treatment:

[Chloroquine poisoning] - PubMed

More travel abroad and changes in the prevalence of malaria have made chloroquine more widely prescribed for prophylaxis and treatment. Acute chloroquine poisoning is life threatening, involving high risk of death caused by cardiac arrest, arrhythmia and apnoea within a few hours of ingestion...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Lots of other examples from medical journals of deaths at varying rates from very low to full on suicide ODs; many originating from 1940s-late 90s. Google chloroquine death or poisoning.

 

[Autoprax]

Sounds like a solid starter dose if you ever manage to score some opioids.

My parents had 1000 milligram Vicodines.

I would go over to their house when they were close to their catastrophic ending and would take one and make a margarita and it was so much easier to watch them helplessly, yet calmly, as they sped toward the edge of the cliff full speed.

I'm ready to make some poppy seed tea, but it really irritates my gall bladder.

 

[GWS_2]

No dude. Those were 10mg Vics

 

[hammies]

90% of Americans don't know what a gram of something looks like. Ecept drug dealers and science nerds.

 

[One-Off]

I took chloroquine for 3 years while I lived in Sierra Leone. Bad juju medicine. I tried to stop. I don't remember why but I remember I hated taking it. Also because I kept hearing that the malaria in West Africa was chloroquine resistant. Then a MD told me that, yes, it is not very effective against malaria, but it is 95% effective against cerebral malaria, which he explained, you really don't want to get. I ended up getting malaria 3 times and a fourth time I had the symptoms but the test came back negative and so they told me it was typhoid. A German MD told me later that typhoid's what they tell everyone when the don't know what the hell you have. I also contracted onchocerciasis which took 13 years to get fully out of my system.