Citation

Brush DE, Bird SB, Boyer EW. J. Toxicol. Clin. Toxicol. 2004; 42(2): 191-195.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Toxicology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA. ebrush@alum.dartmouth.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Marcel Dekker)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15214625

Abstract

The Internet may represent a new mechanism by which adolescents initiate the use of illicit substances. The existence of multiple partisan websites providing misinformation regarding the safety of these substances may lead to an increase in unsafe behavior among this age group. Adverse outcomes related to Internet-based drug information are rarely identified. We report a case of an adolescent whose use of the Internet to obtain drug information led to severe poisoning from the combination of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, harmaline, and a hallucinogenic tryptamine, 5-methoxydimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).