Magical thinking and imipramine poisoning in two school-age children
- 4 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 241 (18) , 1926-1927
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.241.18.1926
Abstract
Two young school-aged boys took an overdose of imipramine hydrochloride to help their enuresis. One child died, and the other required resuscitation. An office survey found 1/3 of school-aged children did not realize the potentially harzardous consequences of taking extra amounts of prescription medications. Physicians might be able to prevent similar needless tragedies by warning both the child and the parents of the unusual lethality of imipramine and other dangerous presciption drugs.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: