what happens to your body if you overdose on sleeping pills?

Question

I'm doing a research paper on suicide for one of my classes at Kent State, and I was wondering a few things:

1) What exactly happens to the body when someone overdoses on sleeping pills? Convulsions? Coma? Both? Both leading to death? Heart attack?

2) Do people tend to use OTC sleeping pills more than prescription sleeping pills to kill themselves? Or do they tend to not use sleeping pills at all?

Any information on these two questions, along with sources, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm Not Sure of the Actual Mechanism of Death, Would Depend On The Medication, Probably Asphyxiation Secondary to Respiratory Depression. BTW, Long Ago, I Protested the Gym At Kent State, Did they Build it? BTW, Tylenol has No Aspirin.

Answer 2

Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!

1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.

2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.

The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.

After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net

Ohhh..and Good Luck!

Answer 3

One of the drugs most commonly used to commit suicide is Tylenol, or something that contains aspirin mixed with alcohol.

What happens when you overdose on medications is, you throw your boddy out of homeostasis. Homeostasis is the ability to maintain an internal dynamic constancy in order to achieve survival. So lets say that you have too much sugar in your system, homeostasis would allow insulin to be secreted in order to achieve a negative feedback to reset your body's glucose back into its normal set point levels.

So now lets say that you ingested a whole bottle of sleeping pills. You have thrown the body out of sync, but unless the patient has their stomach pumped, there is hardly anything that will restore the set points back to normality.

Within only a few minutes, you will begin to feel very tired, very dosed off and soon you will fall asleep. Depending on the type of medications that you took and the quantity and your physical health, ther will be a variation on the amount of time it takes to die from person to person. While it might take a large man a few hours to desmise completely, a small child will die within only a few minutes.

If you are interested in seeing this effect directly, I suggest that you go to Ogrish.com, do a search under suicide, and click on the video where a few Russian boys overdose on heroin and end up killing an 8 year old from an overdose. The video is EXTREMELY graphic, and I don't recomend you watch it unless you have a strong mind. I saw it once, and I kind of regret it now because those images are very hard to get rid of.

There are also other videos of people throwing themselves off buildings, off bridges and onto train tracks. Some make it, and some don't. Then again, do not go there unless you can handle seeing all of this.

Answer 4

Over the counter sleeping pills are just antihistamines, the most popular one being diphenhydramine which is the drug name of the popular antihistamine brand Benedryl. It's just a side effect of most antihistamines being used for a different indication, in this case to help a person sleep. Would overdosing on these medications easily kill you? No, they wouldn't.

Prescription sleep meds can be broken up into different categories. Do a web search on the class involving Ambien and Lunesta, move on to researching Rozerem which involves the control of melatonin in the body (yes, meletonin is also used to help sleep and is over the counter, but i don't think you are referring to this), and then look into trazodone and tricyclic antidepressents. If you read manufacture websites and into the health information for professionals, you'll find specific cases on what happened when people overdosed on these particular medications.

Answer 5

Actually in most cases, what happens is your body take the medication in more and more, slowing your heart rate, eventually you will either run out of oxygen to your body.

Answer 6

Tell parents now

Answer 7

nvr tried!! ....and im GLAD.

Answer 8

i think you just straight up die.

Answer 9

You fall asleep? I dunno search ask.com or google.com plenty of answers