intoxication

[in-tok″sĭ-ka´shun]

1. stimulation, excitement, or impaired judgment caused by a chemical substance, or as if by one.

2. substance intoxication, especially that due to ingestion of alcohol (see discussion at alcoholism). Alcohol intoxication is defined legally according to a person's blood alcohol level; the definition is 0.10 per cent or more in most states in the U.S. and 0.8 per cent or more in Canada.

3. poisoning.

alcohol idiosyncratic intoxication a term previously used for marked behavioral change, usually belligerence, produced by ingestion of small amounts of alcohol that would not cause intoxication in most persons. It is now felt that there is no evidence for a distinction between this condition and any other form of alcohol intoxication.

caffeine intoxication caffeinism (def. 2).

cannabis intoxication physiological and psychological symptoms following the smoking of marijuana or hashish, including euphoria, preoccupation with auditory and visual stimuli, and apathy. Intoxication occurs almost immediately after smoking and peaks within 30 minutes.

pathological intoxication alcohol idiosyncratic i.

substance intoxication a type of substance-induced disorder, consisting of reversible, substance-specific, maladaptive behavioral or psychological changes directly resulting from the physiologic effects on the central nervous system of recent ingestion of or exposure to a drug of abuse, medication, or toxin. Specific cases are named on the basis of etiology, e.g., alcohol intoxication.

water intoxication a condition resulting from undue retention of water with decrease in sodium concentration, marked by lethargy, nausea, vomiting, and mild mental aberrations; in severe cases there may be convulsions and coma.

cannabis intoxication

See Amotivational syndrome, Marijuana.

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First of all, it is very difficult to study the effect of acute cannabis intoxication in epidemiological studies.

Methodologies for Establishing the Relationship Between Alcohol/Drug Use and Driving Impairment--Differences Between Epidemiological, Experimental, and Real-Case Studies

Approximately 80% of the respondents indicated that they were under the influence of cannabis at the time they took the survey, although the self-reported level of cannabis intoxication was only weakly related to other survey variables.

Testing of saliva is preferred both for its ability to predict cannabis intoxication, and on practical grounds.

BreviTest Awarded Grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse to Optimize Device for Rapid Cannabis Testing

According to a 2011 paper by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, acute cannabis intoxication after inhalation has been shown to mildly impair psychomotor skills, but the impairment is seldom severe or long-lasting.

Green light for grass?; Police fear marijuana DUI to rise with liberalization

Between 2009 and 2011, as use rates went up, the rate of emergency room visits for cannabis intoxication rose by 19 percent, according to the Drug Abuse Warning Network.

High times: legalization trend forces consideration of pot's dangers

A similar study design but with an ad libitum smoking challenge might corroborate our hypothesis that THC and CBN OF concentrations could increase with tolerance to smoked cannabis intoxication. On the other hand, dose titration did not appear sufficient to overcome tolerance to drug-induced physiological effects; our participants still exhibited attenuation of cannabis-induced increased heart rate after 60 and 120 mg oral THC (8).

Oral fluid cannabinoids in chronic cannabis smokers during oral [[DELTA].sup.9]--tetrahydrocannabinol therapy and smoked cannabis challenge

In nonpsychiatric smokers, cannabis intoxication has been consistently shown to impair working memory, executive functions, and attention as well as (verbal) episodic memory [13-15].

The neural correlates of mental rotation abilities in Cannabis-abusing patients with schizophrenia: an fMRI study