464 results for “substance use history”
38y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity including metonitazene
A 38-year-old man with a long history of substance use, depression, anxiety and ADHD died from mixed drug toxicity involving metonitazene. He b…
24y · Male·multiple injuries and chest compression asphyxia (train strike)
…icide via train strike on 2 June 2020, two days after release from remand custody. He had schizophrenia, substance use disorder, and was recently incarcerated for assault and FVIO breach. While in prison, Bryan displaye…
38y · Male·Toxicity to gamma hydroxybutyrate
A 38-year-old man with a long history of drug use and criminal offending died from gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) toxicity after consuming approxi…
45y · Male·stab injury to the chest
… the chest inflicted in self-defence by Beau Muscat on 16 September 2021. Paul had an extensive custodial history, acquired brain injury, and intellectual disability. On release from prison, he was prescribed suboxone a…
26y · Male·Self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head
…following a police siege after abducting his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint from a women's refuge. Walsh had a history of violent offences, crystal methamphetamine use, and explicit statements of intent to kill himself rathe…
34y · Male·neck compression due to hanging
A 34-year-old male on home detention bail died by hanging. He had a history of mental health issues, depression, and prior suicide threats, but did not disclose these to correctiona…
24y · Male·Gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen
…4, died after being shot by police at Ipswich Railway Station on 16 September 2018. He had a longstanding history of treatment-resistant schizophrenia and substance abuse, with repeated documented psychotic episodes and…
37y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury complicating aspiration of gastric contents
…em revealed probable alcoholic ketoacidosis with elevated 3-hydroxybutyrate and evidence of chronic alcohol use. She had a documented history of homelessness, substance abuse, and psychiatric illness. Paramedics appropr…
36y · Male·Shotgun wound to the head
KE was a 36-year-old with longstanding psychiatric history including borderline personality disorder, substance abuse, and multiple previous self-harm incidents. He…
60y · Male·Mixed drug (methylamphetamine, deschloro-n-ethyl-ketamine) toxicity in a man wit…
…mine) in the setting of significant cardiovascular disease. He collapsed after self-injecting an unknown substance while driving in rural Victoria. The coroner found no clinical intervention opportunities as death occur…
50y · Female·Combined drug toxicity in a woman with tension pneumothorax
…uzanne Evans, aged 50, died from combined drug toxicity in the setting of tension pneumothorax. She had a history of alcohol dependence, depression, and borderline personality disorder. Following an argument with her pa…
42y · Male·Anthony Young: multiple gunshot wounds to the body and arm; David Young: multipl…
…is brother David and David's partner Louise. Anthony had deteriorating mental health including paranoia, substance use, and lack of psychiatric engagement despite family attempts to obtain help. Police responded appropr…
Female·early bronchopneumonia complicating combined drug toxicity (fentanyl overdose)
Wendy Osborne, a woman with a history of substance abuse and psychiatric issues, died from bronchopneumonia complicating fentanyl overdose. Her…
41y · Male·unascertained
David Davidson Lawson, a 41-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic alcohol use disorder and a history of psychotic symptoms during withdrawal, disappeared from a remote homestead on the …
39y · Male·respiratory failure as a result of the interaction of prescribed medication and …
Mark Richard Gleeson, 39, died from respiratory failure caused by the combined effect of prescribed antipsychotic/anxiolytic medications (olanzapine, quetiapine, clonaze…
53y · Male·multiple large incised defects to the head and single stab wound to the chest
…Community Treatment Order (CTO) supervised by Peninsula Health Mental Health Services. Mr A had a complex history of mental illness (schizophreniform paranoia), substance abuse, and anti-social behaviour. In the weeks b…
36y · Female·Acute brain injury due to intracerebral haemorrhage secondary to sepsis
A 36-year-old woman with intravenous heroin use history presented with depressed consciousness and purpuric rash. Paramedics appropriately administered emp…
34y · Male·Hanging
…e despite suicidal ideation. A key clinical lesson is that incomplete diagnostic clarity and undisclosed substance use (cannabis) complicated risk assessment. The coroner found the decision not to admit was defensible b…
25y · Male·drowning
Matthew Leary, 25, died by suicide at Watsons Bay on 28 November 2014 after three psychiatric admissions in one month. Key clinical lessons: mental health clinicians at Prince of Wales Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital …
44y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (buprenorphine, ketamine, diazepam, fluvoxamine and lacosami…
…ug toxicity involving buprenorphine, ketamine, diazepam, fluvoxamine and lacosamide. She had a 18-19 year history of opioid addiction, initially using heroin recreationally in the Caribbean, later transitioning to metha…
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