{"id":19680,"date":"2022-05-05T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19680"},"modified":"2023-01-03T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:27:06","slug":"what-if-someone-attempts-suicide-by-taking-an-overdose-of-hiv-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19680","title":{"rendered":"What if someone attempts suicide by taking an overdose of HIV meds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there<\/p>\n

Please treat this the same as any other suspected overdose.<\/p>\n

This involves urgently contacting a doctor or hospital for urgent advice. It doesn’t matter that these are HIV meds, but please tell the doctor the names of the meds.<\/p>\n

The contact can be by phoning the closest large hospital or calling a local primary care doctor or pharmacist. You could also call the police for advice if you do not have the hospital number.<\/p>\n

You can also called national or regional suicide helplines in South Africa. They will have had this experience and will recommend what to do.<\/p>\n

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Eight helplines for\u00a0South Africa\u00a0are at this link:
\nhttp:\/\/www.suicide.org\/hotlines\/international\/south-africa-suicide-hotlines.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I am really sorry that I am based in London and only have limited info about emergency services in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Please call urgently.<\/p>\n

In the UK, the phoneline for the Samaritans is\u00a0116 123. T<\/em>he US National Suicide Prevention Hotline is\u00a01-800-273-8255<\/a>. Eight helplines for South Africa <\/a>are linked here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Phonelines in over 60 other countries are linked from this page<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What could help someone who overdosed by taking ARVs with the intention of suicide? Please help,<\/p>\n

What should I do to help as I’m far from the hospital and clinic and I also want to know how dangerous it is for him?<\/p>\n

This person is not even HIV positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-south-africa","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20877,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions\/20877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}