28 results for “alcohol tolerance”
53y · Male·Multiple injuries from being run over by a waste removal truck
Michael Joseph Bottomley, a 53-year-old man with chronic alcohol dependency, depression, diabetes, and hepatitis C, was fatally struck by a waste removal truck in a Perth…
70y · Female·end stage dementia
…s, sedatives, and electroconvulsive therapy (15 sessions) without clear benefit. Her high benzodiazepine tolerance from previous alcohol abuse complicated medication optimisation. She was eventually transferred to the g…
40y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident in which the deceased wa…
George Miller, a 40-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic alcohol dependence, was detained in protective custody at Katherine Police Station on 4 December 2000 after being…
22y · Male·Combined drug toxicity (methadone and benzodiazepines)
…ss to opioids, and that recent prison release substantially elevated overdose risk due to loss of opioid tolerance during incarceration. Key clinical lessons: (1) post-release opioid toxicity risk requires enhanced coun…
34y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
…e parole supervision. Clinical lessons include: recently released prisoners have markedly decreased drug tolerance after period of abstinence while incarcerated, making them vulnerable to fatal overdose; FDS attended a …
19y · Male·Injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (driver)
…n on an unsealed rural road after consuming approximately 8 standard drinks over several hours. His blood alcohol concentration was 0.10–0.11 g/100mL, exceeding both the general driving limit (0.05) and the zero toleran…
38y · Male·Toxicity to heroin
… clinical lesson: recently released prisoners face markedly elevated overdose risk due to reduced opioid tolerance after enforced abstinence, combined with access to more potent drugs and potential purity variations. De…
42y · Male·methadone toxicity
…oid substitution therapy but had diverted methadone in the past. He failed to attend a scheduled Drug and Alcohol appointment on 10 September 2019, one week before his death. The coroner found the death was due to misad…
34y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (ethanol, methadone, diazepam and risperidone)
…g emergency services. A toxicologist noted that her recent missed methadone doses would have lowered her tolerance, increasing CNS depression risk. Emergency physicians advised the nurse's decision to monitor rather tha…
54y · Female·combined drug toxicity (heroin, morphine, cannabis, and prescription medications…
…c effects of heroin combined with her regular prescription medications, likely in the context of reduced tolerance to opioids. Clinicians should remain vigilant for substance relapse in patients with addictive histories…
23y · Male·combined drug toxicity (methadone, clozapine, quetiapine, diazepam, chlorpromazi…
…spital doctors; Alma Street ward staff received no specific instructions about methadone toxicity signs; tolerance was lost during abstinence, making him vulnerable to overdose; and nursing staff failed to escalate conc…
26y · Male·Drowning in the setting of acute alcohol toxicity
A 26-year-old male died from drowning while acutely intoxicated with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.32 g/100ml after jumping off Frankston Pier at 1:20am. He had consumed beer and spirit…
27y · Female·mixed methadone and alcohol intoxication
Susan Patterson, a 27-year-old Aboriginal woman with a history of alcohol and polysubstance use, died from mixed methadone and alcohol intoxication. She consumed an unknown substa…
31y · Male·mixed prescription drug toxicity (methadone, fluvoxamine, tramadol, mirtazapine …
…kely diverted from someone in the methadone program—and ingested it with other CNS depressants. With low tolerance to methadone, obesity, and severe heart disease, he died from respiratory depression and aspiration. The…
53y · Female·mixed prescription drug toxicity
…o involve addiction medicine and pain management specialists, inadequate consideration of loss of opioid tolerance when reintroducing methadone after a break, and permitting unsupervised self-management of medications d…
49y · Male·Drug toxicity (methadone)
Brenton Grosser, a 49-year-old man with alcohol addiction history, died from methadone toxicity after consuming three 100ml takeaway methadone bottles pr…
49y · Female·Unascertained; most likely cardiac abnormality
…nit on 6 December 2019. She presented to the ED intoxicated (BAC 0.159%) following breach of a PARC zero-tolerance alcohol policy, was assessed and medically cleared after 7.5 hours with improving Glasgow Coma Scale (13…
16y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to skull fracture and extradural haemotoma from b…
…ung people are more vulnerable to head injury due to incomplete brain development; (3) Symptoms mimicking alcohol intoxication (confusion, vomiting, headache, unsteadiness) following head trauma must trigger medical eva…
41y · Male·complications of acute alcohol intoxication
Anthony Gilbert, a 41-year-old man with chronic alcohol dependence and depression, died from complications of acute alcohol intoxication after police returned hi…
53y · Female·Combined effects of alcohol, amitriptyline, and methadone
Joanne Lovelock, a 53-year-old woman with chronic pain, died from combined effects of alcohol, amitriptyline, and methadone on Christmas Day 2015. She had developed opioid dependence while receiving …
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