168 results for “benzodiazepine use”
57y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (heroin, methadone, benzodiazepines including novel benzodia…
Raymond John Flaherty, a 57-year-old Wurundjeri man with longstanding opioid and benzodiazepine dependence, died from mixed drug toxicity involving heroin, methadone, prescribed diazepam, unprescrib…
31y · Male·Multidrug overdose including heroin
LP, a 31-year-old man with depression, severe anxiety, and substance use disorder, died from multidrug overdose including heroin. He had long-standing benzodiazepine (Xanax) abuse …
35y · Female·combined drug toxicity
A 35-year-old woman with long-standing substance use disorder, depression, and chronic pain died from combined drug toxicity involving methadone, pregabalin, me…
28y · Female·methadone toxicity
A 28-year-old woman with a history of mental illness and substance use disorder died from methadone toxicity five days after recommencing methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) afte…
22y · Male·Combined drug toxicity (alprazolam, methadone, diazepam, dextromethorphan and op…
…thadone, diazepam, dextromethorphan). He manipulated multiple GPs by misrepresenting his tolerance and drug use, obtaining escalating benzodiazepine prescriptions from concurrent practitioners (Kinetic and Subiaco) with…
59y · Female·Global hypoxic brain injury due to mixed drug toxicity, specifically alprazolam …
…alprazolam dependence for anxiety disorder died from global hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest caused by mixed drug toxicity, with alprazolam levels in the fatal range. She had intentionally taken excess medi…
53y · Female·Unintentional mixed prescription drug toxicity (morphine and diazepam) together …
…ase significantly increases vulnerability to CNS depressants; and the dangers of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use. The case highlights risks of informal medication sharing among vulnerable patients with substance…
38y · Female·mixed drug toxicity (lethal level of dothiepin, potentially lethal level of morp…
A 38-year-old woman with long-standing heroin and benzodiazepine dependence died from mixed drug toxicity following injection of heroin. Her GP had prescribed multiple…
43y · Female·mixed drug toxicity including methadone
43-year-old woman with long-standing opioid and benzodiazepine dependence died from mixed drug toxicity including methadone, amitriptyline, pregabalin, duloxetine, d…
30y · Male·hanging
JC was a 30-year-old with a long history of benzodiazepine dependence and previous psychiatric episodes triggered by withdrawal. He presented to Calvary Mater Ho…
38y · Male·Toxic effects of morphine in a setting of benzodiazepine dependency
A 38-year-old man with chronic pain, mental illness, and benzodiazepine dependency died from morphine toxicity. He obtained multiple benzodiazepines and opioids from five dif…
38y · Male·Organizing pneumonia with loculated pleural effusion in the setting of drug use …
…asthma, died from organizing pneumonia with loculated pleural effusion in the setting of methadone and benzodiazepine use. The critical clinical failure was lack of communication between his two treating doctors: Dr R. (…
22y · Male·Combined drug toxicity (methadone and benzodiazepines)
…2-year-old man recently released from prison, died from combined drug toxicity involving methadone and benzodiazepines. He consumed methadone takeaway doses prescribed to his housemate Ms Rattya without her knowledge or …
20y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity including tramadol and flualprazolam
…nt, died from mixed drug toxicity involving tramadol and flualprazolam (a novel psychoactive substance benzodiazepine). She obtained tramadol from a friend and consumed what she believed was Xanax but likely contained fl…
51y · Female·combined effects of ischaemic and valvular heart disease and combined drug (doth…
…e was discovered lying on the floor by her mother and sister the following morning. The coroner found the cause of death to be the combined effects of ischaemic and valvular heart disease and combined drug intoxication …
61y · Female·Gunshot injury to head
…sband on 29 March 2010 at their Mount Macedon home. Contributing factors included sertraline toxicity, benzodiazepine use, and alcohol consumption, which likely decreased her conscious state. The coroner found elevated s…
47y · Male·Bronchopneumonia on a background of methadone and benzodiazepine use
Frank Frood, a 47-year-old man with a 20-year history of heroin use and opioid replacement therapy (ORT) on methadone, died from bronchopneumonia with a background of methadon…
52y · Male·septicaemia caused by Streptococcus Milleri group pneumonia
Kurt Mellick Andriske, 52, died from septicaemia caused by Streptococcus Milleri pneumonia, with drug toxicity as a contributing factor. He was a complex patient …
55y · Female·Multiple drug toxicity due to combination of alcohol and benzodiazepines (oxazep…
…e and previous alcohol withdrawal seizure. The coroner found Dr B.'s management inadequate: indefinite benzodiazepine prescriptions without periodic assessments, failure to arrange psychiatric referral despite knowing he…
39y · Male·Multiple drug toxicity (methadone, diazepam, oxazepam, carbamazepine, levetirace…
…year-old man with epilepsy and opioid dependence died from multiple drug toxicity involving methadone, benzodiazepines (diazepam, oxazepam), antiepileptics (carbamazepine, levetiracetam), and mirtazapine. He was prescrib…
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