Young man hospitalized after smoking 2 "super high" cigarettes bought online

SGGPO October 24, 2023 14:37

After smoking two cigarettes with the packaging "Get high" - super high, with the word bomb on the cigarette, a young man in Hanoi had to be hospitalized with headache, dizziness, slow heart rate, increased muscle tension reflex, and metabolic acidosis due to stimulation.

On October 24, Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, Director of the Poison Control Center, Bach Mai Hospital, said that the center's doctors had just admitted a male patient, NTT (born in 1996, in Hanoi), who was in critical condition due to smoking cigarettes laced with synthetic drugs.

This male patient was taken to the Poison Control Center for emergency treatment with headache, dizziness, slow heart rate, increased muscle tension reflex, metabolic acidosis due to stimulation... Through investigation, the patient said that the above symptoms appeared after smoking 2 cigarettes with the packaging "Get high" - super high, on the cigarette was the word bomb. This cigarette pack was purchased online and the origin is unknown. Previously, this young man also bought and used the same type of cigarette, but did not show the above symptoms.

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Cigarette packs bought online contain synthetic drugs that are very dangerous to users.

Doctor Nguyen Trung Nguyen added that after receiving treatment for the patient, through testing the cigarette pack that patient NTT brought, the results showed that the cigarette fibers contained new generation synthetic drugs MDMB- BUTINACA and ADB-BUTINACA.

“These are all substances belonging to the group of synthetic cannabis drugs discovered in a number of electronic cigarette products that have caused serious poisoning in many cases that have been treated at the Poison Control Center in the past,” Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen emphasized, adding that this is the first time the center has recorded a case of synthetic drug poisoning due to smoking cigarettes.

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