The fact that it is called alcohol poisoning but heroin/cocaine/methamphetamine/ketamine overdose really flips me out.

@DragonFruit My guess is more people drive on cannabis than LSD or MDMA

@samueltyler2 I've heard them my entire life. Which of those have you not heard before?

@AlienTheExtraterrestrial i was reacting to your stating that in professional publications the authors use a different term for both. I worked as a clinical toxicologist and never saw that. The national poison information system has always struggled with that term.

I also was careful by the term alcohol poisoning anyway. When people refer to that, it is really an overdose, when someone ingests too much alcohol. That is really not different from when someone uses too much heroin or other medrugs/medications.

I realize that many people thing of poisoning in terms of someone acting to poison someone. But the actual definition is far broader.

The importance is often in the intent. We used to say that people could be "accidentally" poisoned. Today we use intentional versus unintentional as a better was to separate the activity. Accident infers a non-preventable event, whereas probably all are preventable.

I often question my knowledge because of things i read on SW. With AI easily available through Google, i decided to check out the common defintion:

noun
poisoning (noun)
the action of administering poison to a person or animal:
"the poisoning of a former spy"
the fact of being affected by or contaminated with poison:
"symptoms of poisoning may include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting"

verb
poisoning (present participle)
administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally:
"someone had tried to poison me" · "swans are being poisoned by lead from anglers' lines"
adulterate or contaminate with poison:
"he claimed the guards had poisoned his food"
smear (a weapon or missile) with poison:
"hunters would use the sap of monkshood to poison their spears" · "he was once shot at with poisoned arrows"
prove harmful or destructive to:
"the bombings poisoned the political atmosphere and deepened the social divide"
chemistry
(of a substance) reduce the activity of (a catalyst).
Origin
Middle English (denoting a harmful medicinal draft): from Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio(n-) ‘potion’, related to potare ‘to drink’.

@MarineBob Nothing appears on the chart but drugs.

@Onryo Alcohol overdose, obviously.