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W hen the patient arrived, he was almost completely incoherent. The man’s assistant had found him unconscious earlier that evening and rushed him to the Clínica El Rosario hospital, where the man intermittently woke up in a delusional state — struggling to breathe, his heart pounding. “He was not recognizing where he was,” says clinical toxicologist Juan Carlos Fernández. “It gave the impression that he was still under the effects of alcohol, that he was drunk.

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