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John A. Henry
Researcher at St Mary's Hospital
Publications - 7
Citations - 606
John A. Henry is an academic researcher from St Mary's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Serotonin syndrome & MDMA. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 7 publications receiving 580 citations.
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Review Clinical review: Major consequences of illicit drug consumption
Robert J Devlin,John A. Henry +1 more
TL;DR: The problems associated with the different drugs from a systems-based viewpoint are reviewed and collapse, convulsions, or coma may be caused in different circumstances by opioids, MDMA, or gamma hydroxybutyrate and may be aggravated by other sedatives, especially alcohol and benzodiazepines.
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Clinical review: Major consequences of illicit drug consumption
Robert J Devlin,John A. Henry +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the problems associated with the different drugs from a systems-based viewpoint can be found in this paper, where the authors identify the most common cause of respiratory complications, mainly linked with its mode of use, with airway burns, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and lung syndromes being well-recognised sequelae.
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Cannabis as a precipitant of cardiovascular emergencies.
TL;DR: Two distinct cases of cannabis use precipitated a malignant arrhythmia in a patient with critical ischaemia from longstanding coronary artery disease and a young patient presented with an acute myocardial infarction that had started whilst smoking marijuana are described.
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Epidemiology and Relative Toxicity of Antidepressant Drugs in Overdose
TL;DR: The inherent toxicity of the drug appears to be the crucial factor and, although less well researched, prescribing practices and perception of toxicity are probable contributory factors.
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Constraints on antidepressant prescribing and principles of cost-effective antidepressant use. Part 1: Depression and its treatment.
John A. Henry,Carol Rivas +1 more
TL;DR: In the UK, the drugs used to treat depression account for 9% of poisoning deaths in England and Wales as discussed by the authors, which is the highest percentage of poisoning death in the UK.