Drug Abuse

Cocaine Overdose Deaths Higher in Hot Weather

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 22nd, 1998

Cocaine is even more dangerous on hot days, when the risk of death from overdose increases significantly, according to an article in the June 10, 1998, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, 1998; 279:1795-1800).

Peter M. Marzuk, MD, of Cornell University Medical College in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues reviewed New York City medical examiner cases from 1990 through 1995. Using data from all unintentional cocaine overdose deaths from 1990 through 1992 and all deaths of cocaine users from hyperthermia (extremely high body temperature), the study determined that the mean daily number of fatal cocaine overdoses increased steadily above a...

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