Our experience of a thebaine poisoning cluster when non-food grade poppy seeds entered the Australian food supply is now published - free prints here Clinical Toxicology Darren Roberts 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This observational study looks at patients poisoned after drinking POPPY SEED TEA! Poppy seed tea contains thebaine which can cause muscle spasms, convulsions, and cardiac arrest (see below). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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A cluster of acute thebaine poisonings from non-food grade poppy seeds in the Australian food supply tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Toxicokinetics of thebaine in those consuming non-food grade poppy seeds as a tea tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Editorial: Poisoning from non-food grade poppy seeds tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fire ants are on the march. 🐜 Darren Roberts 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 (UNSW) writes about what happens when they sting. theconversation.com/fire-ants-are-…

GHB-related ED presentations #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/1742-6… Angela Chiew @UnaNicI Darren Roberts 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 Wiley Clinical Health ACEM

Congratulations to Dr Darren Roberts (New South Wales Poisons Information Centre in Australia Darren Roberts 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 ) on receiving ASCEPT Lecture Award and delivering such an interesting presentation! #BTSLiverpool2024 #toxicology

Using the Trail Making Test assessment, this study found that patients who had sedative drug overdoses may have significant cognitive deficits even when medically cleared. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Orphenadrine overdoses up to 10 grams were associated with antimuscarinic toxicity and sedation but not severe cardiotoxicity tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A 40-year-old man ingested an unknown amount of paramao root oil and experienced salicylate toxicity. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In Australia, poison centre calls involving psychedelics more than doubled from 2014 to 2022, likely reflecting increased community use tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In case you could not attend TAPNA Inc. ASM in Melbourne in May, here are the meeting abstracts. doi.org/10.1080/247343… Next ASM will be a hybrid meeting 7-9 May 2025 in Wellington, NZ. willorganise.eventsair.com/2025-tapna for more info. T&F Medicine & Healthcare

In this letter to the editor, the authors discuss that dipentylone and pentylone are in circulation in the drug markets in New South Wales tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Heroin found in cocaine and ‘ice’, and snorting a line can be lethal theconversation.com/heroin-found-i… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Data supporting blood tests at 2 h post-ingestion in unintentional paediatric paracetamol poisonings

The frequency of opioid poisoning in people using substances sold as cocaine or methamphetamine #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/1742-6… Darren Roberts 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 Wiley Clinical Health ACEM

🔓Trends in novel #opioid use & detections in exposures & #police drug seizures in #NSW Janette L. Smith, Jared Brown, David Atefi, ThanjiraJiranantakan Vanessa Shaw, ... Darren Roberts 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 NSW Health Sydney Children's Hospitals Network University of Sydney Edith Collins Centre onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/da…

The ingestion of wild mushrooms appears to be increasing. This can have so many unintended effects. Read here about the risks and how to prevent harm