Woman 'saw dead people' and fired a gun at them after taking too many aspirin

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Before visiting the emergency room, a woman fired a gun at hallucinations triggered by over-the-counter pills.

Assassassin 1 point 5 days ago

A toxicology screen detected high levels of salicylates, a class of compound that includes acetylsalicylic acid, better known as aspirin.

The diagnosis: When questioned, the woman acknowledged that she had been taking over 15 aspirin pills a day for multiple weeks. Each of these pills, marketed for back and body pain, contained 500 milligrams of aspirin.

I didn't realize you could hallucinate from an aspirin overdose. Also, how in the fuck did she think 15 pills a day was a reasonable dosage? Also also, how did she not just bleed to death from a paper cut?

Absolutely wild case.

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