Aciclovir may be quantitated in plasma or serum to monitor for drug accumulation in patients with renal dysfunction or to confirm a diagnosis of poisoning in acute overdose victims.

The drug rapidly restores regular breathing in overdose victims, but experts say its quick use is vital to saving lives.

The depressing thing was that all the overdose victims had been about Laurie's age or younger, and obviously had been doing a lot better than she was financially.

And I'd imagine that no matter what their other feelings about drug policy are, the families and friends of all six overdose victims wish naloxone had been on hand in time to save their loved ones.

Here, emergency wards are crowded with overdose victims and foster homes are filled with crack babies.

Mr. Borland, who at 48 was the oldest of the overdose victims, graduated from Boston University and had musical tastes running from Mozart to Scott Joplin.

A Drug-Based Game Of Russian Roulette Although the overdose victims were strangers to one another, some shared common traits and histories.

Plasma levels are usually less than 200 μg/L during therapeutic administration, but can range from 1-20 mg/L in overdose victims.

After attending a concert with his friends, Clay accompanies them to a derelict alley where they stare at the corpse of an overdose victim which they have left there to decompose.

Twilo was one of two Manhattan nightclubs that had hired a private ambulance service to wait outside their doors to take overdose victims to hospitals.