Flumazenil: A Pharmacologic Antidote with Limited Medical Toxicology Utility, or … An Antidote in Search of an Overdose

Arsenic: In Search of an Antidote to a Global Poison

Amir Attaran In 2001, the chief of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Andrew Natsios, gave this justifi cation to the US Congress for why the agency opposed giving antiretroviral therapy (ART) to Africans with HIV: “If we had [HIV medicines for Africa] today, we could not distribute them. We could not administer the program because we do not have the doctors, we do ...

Physostigmine as an Antidote

Introduction: Rapid treatment of patients with anticholinergic toxicity in the Ernergcncy Department (ED) has remained problematic for many years. These patients are often agitated. uncooperative, and unable to provide a clear history. Physostigmine is a specific antidote for anticholinergic toxicity. yet its popularity has waned due to controversy surrounding its potential central nervo~is sys...

In search of meaningfulness: nostalgia as an antidote to boredom.

We formulated, tested, and supported, in 6 studies, a theoretical model according to which individuals use nostalgia as a way to reinject meaningfulness in their lives when they experience boredom. Studies 1-3 established that induced boredom causes increases in nostalgia when participants have the opportunity to revert to their past. Studies 4 and 5 examined search for meaning as a mediator of...

Belladona an Antidote to Opium

grains viij of solid opium, but he did not weigh it. At midnight it was discovered that he was sleeping so soundly that he could not be awaked. Dr. C. M. Smith saw him three-quarters of an hour later, viz., at a quarter to one on the morning of the 19th. lie was then perfectly insensible, his pupils were contracted to the size of a pin's head, and his breathing sterterous. Dr. Smith gave him an...

An Antidote and Emergency Case