The Acute Lethal Toxicity Of Commonly Used Psychoactive Substances is a very comprehensive and well researched paper that details the acute toxicity levels of a number of drugs through various usual means of administration.
It aims to determine the acute lethal toxicity of a range of psychoactive substances in terms of the dose customarily used as a single substance for nonmedical purposes.
A structured English-language literature search was conducted to identify experimental studies and clinical reports that documented human and non-human lethal doses of 20 abused substances that are distributed widely in Europe and North America.
Four inclusion criteria were specified for the reports, and approximately 3000 relevant records were retrieved from search engines at Biosis, Science Citation Index, Google and the National Library of Medicine’s Gateway.
In order to account for different drug potencies, a ‘safety ratio’ was computed for each substance by comparing its reported acute lethal dose with the dose most commonly used for non-medical purposes
This book covers information about the acute toxicity levels of the following drugs:
