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Re: What happens in treatment center-Great Post!

Posted by rxnurse on December 10, 2003, at 0:24:27

In reply to Re: What happens in treatment center-Great Post!, posted by bsj on December 9, 2003, at 22:28:07

No kidding! We don't even give it anymore in the ER because people were coming in asking for it, straight up! One nurse I know was injecting up to 200mg, at work. That is A LOT of Demerol, not to mention a usual dose is 12.5 or 25mg intramuscularlly. Also, Demerol can cause a severe, life threatening reaction because of it's neurotoxic metabolite, normeperidine. Substance abuse among health care professionals is serious and quite scary. It's a really stressful job to take care of others all the time, but using strong drugs at worse is really scary.


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