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A child undergoing drug treatment develops hyperthermia, acidosis, and respiratory depression. What type of drug would be responsible for the condition?

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It could be cocaine, MDMA, amphetamine...

Step-by-step explanation:

Those are the drugs that can cause life threatening conditions, sometimes even death.

It mainly causes hyperthermia.

Some of the symptoms: very high temperature, which can damage brain pretty badly, other organs, too.

Other symptoms: muscle cramps, dizziness, headache, vomiting, feeling weak in general.

Heart rate is very high and redness of the skin might appear.

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