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> three thousand times the human recreational dose Dang. Perhaps it is possible to die from an overdose of psychedelics, I stand corrected. However, it seems
by Moodles 8y ago
> three thousand times the human recreational dose
Dang.
Perhaps it is possible to die from an overdose of psychedelics, I stand corrected. However, it seems like you can technically overdose from anything after a certain amount. You can technically die from overdosing on potassium if you eat something like 1000 bananas in a day. What I meant is that you can't overdose, just like you can't from weed (even though, I'm sure, if you smoke 1000000 blunts you would). What I mean is that you're no way near something like heroin where the difference between death and bliss isn't much at all. You'd have to be pretty insane to die from overdosing on psychedelics.
- namero999 8y agoThere's a name for this. LD50. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose Sort by %, you'll find that caffeine, nicotine and vitamin D are more lethal than most illegal psychedelics.
- bdamm 8y agoIs there a name for the width of the LD curve? The LD50 is useful information but also useful is knowing the intensity of that onset.
- shawnz 8y agoThis is technically not what you're asking for, but you might be interested in the therapeutic index (the ratio between LD50, 50% probability of lethal dose, and ED50, 50% probability of effective dose).
- rosser 8y agoThe term you're looking for is "therapeutic index".
- 3131s 8y agoIt's easy to overdose on 2c-e, for example. Around the time I was getting interested in phenylethylamines there was an incident in my home state where five teenagers overdosed and died by snorting lines of 2c-e.