New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- As the festive season brings a surge in parties, late nights and indulgence, doctors are warning that even a one-time lapse in judgement can have serious, sometimes irreversible, health consequences. A Canadian emergency physician has shared a chilling case from last Christmas to highlight how recreational drug use - even among otherwise healthy adults - can trigger life-threatening heart damage.

Dr Jeff Yoo, an emergency medicine specialist at Providence Health Care and a clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia, recently took to Instagram to describe how a seemingly harmless holiday decision landed a 39-year-old man in the cardiac intensive care unit with acute heart failure.

Recalling the incide...