What are the consequences of illicit drug use?

Vascular congestion/pulmonary edema (w/in 3 hours of overdose) Lobar pneumonia (more than 12 hours after overdose) Heroin overdose: hypoxic failure and pulmonary edema Talc /magnesium used to cut drugs can lead to foreign body entering, granulomatousis, fibrosis, pulmonary HTN. Crack cocaine lung disease (pleurisy, cough, wheeze, dyspnea, hemoptysis, upper airway burns, increased ferritin and iron ->chronic lung disease)