Disorientation, confusion, and hallucinations resulting from an overdose of scopolamine are most efficaciously treated by administering

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   Angelok890

   scopolamine is a muscarinic receptor blocker similar to atropine, To counteract a competitive muscarinic receptor block, you need to ncrease the levels of agonist, in this case acetylcholine. However, you can't give ACh because it is broken down almost instantaneously by acetylcholinesterase. The answer is to give a drug which knocks out the acetylcholinesterase, allowing endogenously released ACh to accumulate to overcome the action of scopolamine. The drug which will do this is physostigmine.

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