The poison center receives a telephone call at 1:40 AM from a physician in a local ED regarding a 54-year-old man named Steven Marks. Mr Marks was brought to the ED via ambulance accompanied by police because the patient had been belligerent and was refusing referral. According to his wife, he took a been belligerent and was refusing referral. According to his wife, he took a handful of pills following a heated argument she had with him that evening. She estimates the time of the fight was about 6:00 pm. She left the house and came back 2 hours later. When she returned, she found him lying on the bed and saw two empty bottles in the bathroom wastepaper basket that were not there before. The wife thinks he was trying to kill himself. He states that he took a few extra pills because he had a backache and did not think one or two pills would work. The ambulance crew brings in the two empty bottles of medicine. The wife cannot remember how much, if any, was remaining in the bottles prior to today. According to the wife, all other medications in the house are accounted for. One of the bottles originally contained sixty 500-mg acetaminophen tablets, and the other bottle originally contained thirty 300-mg acetaminophen/5-mg hydrocodone tablets. The physician reports that Mr Marks vomited twice in the ambulance and an additional four times since his arrival in the ED. He has not received any antiemetics.