{"id":491884,"date":"2026-05-19T06:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/491884\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:38:15","slug":"youth-purposely-overdosing-on-benadryl-nipissing-fn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/491884\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth purposely overdosing on Benadryl: Nipissing FN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 1:32PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 12:13PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nfn.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nfn.ca\/\">Nipissing First Nation<\/a>\u2019s leadership says some youth and young adults in the community are intentionally taking high doses of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benadryl.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.benadryl.ca\/\">Benadryl<\/a>, a common allergy medicine, in a dangerous trend that carries the risk of coma or death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere are no safe or positive effects from taking high doses, only serious risks,\u201d wrote the First Nation community in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The ongoing trend involves young people seeking what they may perceive as exciting or different effects from the drug, but health officials say those feelings come at an extreme cost.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DK3GZYDUZZEELENPCK2K6LRCT4.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Benadryl A stock photo of a 36-caplet package of Benadryl allergy medication. (Benadryl) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Antihistamines, like Benadryl, are drugs with a safe limit that varies by individual, depending on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>age and body size,<\/li>\n<li>the type and amount taken,<\/li>\n<li>an individual\u2019s health conditions and <\/li>\n<li>other medicines being used by the person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Signs of overdose to watch for<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nipissing First Nation provided some indicators that a person may be suffering from an overdose, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>being very excited or jittery,<\/li>\n<li>having an unusually fast heartbeat,<\/li>\n<li>irritability,<\/li>\n<li>seeing or hearing things that are not real (hallucinations) and<\/li>\n<li>seizures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Serious symptoms that can follow an overdose<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extreme sleepiness<\/li>\n<li>Slow breathing<\/li>\n<li>Trouble peeing (urinary retention)<\/li>\n<li>Loss of consciousness (coma)<\/li>\n<li>Death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What to do right away<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The First Nation advised that anyone who suspects an overdose has occurred should call 911 or go to the nearest hospital immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Health officials said individuals responding to a possible overdose are urged to stay with the person and keep them awake if possible, and to bring the medicine bottle to the hospital or authorities to show health workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe encourage you to reach out if you need support or have concerns,\u201d said the First Nation\u2019s director of health services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Support is available to all members through <a href=\"https:\/\/nfn.ca\/health-services\/right-path\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nfn.ca\/health-services\/right-path\/\">Nipissing First Nation Right Path Counselling and Prevention Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><b>RELATED STORIES:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 1:32PM EDT Published:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 12:13PM EDT Nipissing First Nation\u2019s leadership says some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[274],"tags":[36443,214622,104535,33096,9413,18,214621,8042,135,41032,214623,19,17,462,214620,105156,4324,148,104502,80739,8551,1150,4190,22202,41094],"class_list":["post-491884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-36443","tag-benadryl","tag-coma","tag-consciousness","tag-death","tag-eire","tag-first-nation","tag-hallucinations","tag-health","tag-high","tag-high-doses","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication","tag-nipissing","tag-north-bay","tag-ontario","tag-overdose","tag-seizures","tag-teen","tag-teens","tag-tiktok","tag-trend","tag-young-people","tag-youth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116599869550135785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}