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Fatal caffeine overdose: Two case reports

Sarah Kerrigan, +1 more
- 04 Oct 2005 - 
- Vol. 153, Iss: 1, pp 67-69
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Fatal caffeine overdoses in adults are relatively rare and require the ingestion of a large quantity of the drug, typically in excess of 5 g.
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This article is published in Forensic Science International.The article was published on 2005-10-04. It has received 220 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Caffeine & Drug overdose.

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Caffeinated energy drinks--a growing problem.

TL;DR: Several studies suggest that energy drinks may serve as a gateway to other forms of drug dependence, and regulatory implications concerning labeling and advertising, and the clinical implications for children and adolescents are discussed.
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Caffeine: Cognitive and Physical Performance Enhancer or Psychoactive Drug?

TL;DR: The present review summarizes the main findings concerning caffeine’s mechanisms of action, use, abuse, dependence, intoxication, and lethal effects, and suggests that the concepts of toxic and lethal doses are relative.
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Caffeine use in children: what we know, what we have left to learn, and why we should worry.

TL;DR: Why children and adolescents may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of caffeine, and to propose how caffeine consumption within this population may potentiate the rewarding properties of other substances are proposed.
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Theobroma cacao L., the Food of the Gods: A scientific approach beyond myths and claims

M. Rusconi, +1 more
TL;DR: Many qualitative differences of cocoa and chocolate are reviewed, aiming to establish the different implications for public health through the use of the analyzed concentration of polyphenols in cocoa products.
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Increased alcohol consumption, nonmedical prescription drug use, and illicit drug use are associated with energy drink consumption among college students.

TL;DR: A substantial and rapidly growing proportion of college students use energy drinks, and energy drink users tend to have greater involvement in alcohol and other drug use and higher levels of sensation seeking, relative to nonusers of energy drinks.
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Disposition of Toxic Drugs and Chemicals in Man

TL;DR: Jede Substanz bildet in alphabetischer Reihenfolge der internationalen Freinamen oder chemischen Bezeichnung ein eigenes einbis dreiseitiges Kapitel mit einheitlicher Gliederung.
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Clarke's analysis of drugs and poisons in pharmaceuticals, body fluids and postmortem material

TL;DR: This manual and reference work provides a source of analytical data for drugs and related substances for scientists faced with the difficult problem of identifying a drug in a pharmaceutical product, in a sample of tissue or body fluid, from a living patient or in post-mortem material.
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Caffeine metabolism in the newborn

TL;DR: The data indicate that the 4‐day plasma t½ of caffeine characteristic of the newborn depends in large part on slow urinary excretion of unchanged drug since there is little or no metabolism.
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Caffeine content of specialty coffees

TL;DR: In this study, the coffees sold as decaffeinated were found to have caffeine concentrations less than 17.7mg/dose, and there was a wide range in caffeine content present in caffeinated coffees ranging from 58 to 259 mg/dose.
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A Comparison of Drug Concentrations in Postmortem Cardiac and Peripheral Blood in 320 Cases

TL;DR: The cardiac to peripheral ratio (C/P) of drug concentrations in postmortem blood samples was determined for 113 drugs representing toxicological findings in 320 cases, suggesting that drug quantifications be done on both cardiac and peripheral blood.
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