Opiate Overdose Symptoms

Our rehab treatment center manages to treat clients experiencing opiate overdose symptoms that addicts who go over the line are forced to deal with. At the will of our clients, we can effectively make sure that our clients survive the initial overdose, and provide further treatment to help break the addiction.

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One of the more displeasing symptoms of an opiate overdose is constipation. This can result in disastrous effects because if stools become hard enough that the intestines become impacted, this can lead to a rupture of the bowels.

What can be a potentially lethal opiate overdose symptom is the slowing down of the respiratory rate. Our clients who experience this usually have a difficult time breathing and take short, shallow breaths. If our clients weren’t being cared for, their breaths eventually become so short that they stop breathing. This symptom is the main contributor of opiate related deaths.

Along with a decreased respiratory rate, the addict experiencing an opiate overdose will exhibit a lower heart rate. This, combined with less breathing, can restrict the access of oxygen to the vital systems that need that oxygen the most. For example, the brain when starved of oxygen can become damaged, and brain damage is permanent.

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Lastly, the central nervous system experiences opiate overdose symptoms too. An overdose inhibits the central nervous system from working at its full potential causing there to be a loss of alertness in the client. Unfortunately, this may develop into a loss of consciousness, or even seizures.

It is extremely important that anyone who overdoses on opiates get treatment. The opiate overdose symptoms are far too dangerous to the individual, and may possibly be fatal.