Young patient with known heroin use who presents with altered mental status and hypoventilation, most consistent with heroin overdose
Opioid overdose should be treated immediately with naloxone (short-acting opioid receptor antagonist), and use medications such as naltrexone (long-acting opioid antagonists), methadone (long-acting opiate) or buprenorphine (partial opioid agonist) to prevent relapse
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This was so free I thought I wandered into a Canadian hospital for a minute.