115 results for “heroin addiction”
34y · Female·Global cerebral ischaemia secondary to mixed drug toxicity including a substance…
A 34-year-old woman with a 10-year history of heroin dependence died from mixed drug toxicity including heroin after injecting in a public toilet. She had enga…
39y · Male·Haemorrhage from right groin wound
A 39-year-old man with extensive intravenous drug use history died from haemorrhage following rupture of a femoral artery aneurysm during a groin injection attempt. He had previously been admitted for arterial repair fro…
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 pres…
31y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
…he deceased had a long history of drug abuse, was on parole with bail conditions, had attempted suicide by heroin overdose days earlier, and had not eaten for several days. He was exhausted, hungry, possibly withdrawing …
33y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (heroin, buprenorphine and benzodiazepines)
A 33-year-old man with polysubstance abuse disorder and mental illness died from mixed drug toxicity (heroin, buprenorphine, and benzodiazepines). He engaged in 'prescription shopping' across multiple medical practi…
27y · Male·Toxicity to heroin
Nathan Chalkley, 27, died from heroin toxicity on 27 January 2007. He was released from Barwon Prison in October 2006 on parole after serving ti…
26y · Male·gastric aspiration
A 26-year-old remanded prisoner died from gastric aspiration at Adelaide Remand Centre. He was a heroin user experiencing withdrawal, having been offered but declined infirmary treatment and methadone on arriva…
17y · Female·mixed drug toxicity
…idly escalated her dose from 35mg to 70mg in five days without assessing previous psychiatric treatment or heroin history. Nicole was taking benzodiazepines, doxepin, and fluoxetine—creating dangerous CNS depression. On …
21y · Male·combined effect of a cocktail of drugs causing central nervous system depression…
Paul Fennessy, a 21-year-old with polysubstance addiction and mental health issues, died from positional asphyxia following a drug overdose on 6 January 2010. He …
58y · Male·Heroin toxicity
…back pain, paranoid schizophrenia, and decades-long prescription opioid and benzodiazepine abuse died from heroin toxicity. He had been successfully withdrawn from opioids (MS Contin, Endone) during a March 2016 hospital…
30y · Male·Alcohol and drug toxicity
Dean Withall, aged 30, died from alcohol and drug toxicity following heroin injection combined with alcohol consumption. He had a long history of drug and alcohol abuse and was relea…
41y · Male·mixed drug toxicity (ethanol, amitriptyline, methadone, morphine, diazepam, tema…
…placement of care, understanding that brief police intervention lacks medical oversight, and considering addiction medicine and public health responses to reduce such preventable deaths.
27y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
…disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, and borderline personality disorder died from mixed drug toxicity (heroin, morphine, diazepam, citalopram, quetiapine) shortly after discharge from The Geelong Clinic. Despite rece…
36y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity
…dation, and mental health support. However, she did not present to arranged accommodation and instead used heroin with her partner. She was found deceased in a van on 11 March 2017. The coroner noted that her partner lac…
31y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (heroin, bromazolam, metonitazine, protonitazene, methamphet…
…standing opioid use disorder and complex mental health conditions, died from mixed drug toxicity involving heroin, novel psychoactive substances (nitazenes: metonitazene and protonitazene; bromazolam), benzodiazepines, m…
28y · Female·combined drug toxicity (heroin and prescribed psychiatric medications)
…original woman with longstanding mental illness and polysubstance abuse, died from combined drug toxicity (heroin plus prescribed psychiatric medications) shortly after discharge from hospital on a community treatment or…
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…drug syndicate involving significant sums of money and/or drugs. The couple attended Westmead Hospital for heroin detoxification in early August 2001 but disengaged, stating they felt strong enough to stop without furthe…
30y · Male·acute combined heroin and alcohol toxicity; ingestion of alcohol and heroin
Michael James Dwyer, a 30-year-old man, died on 17 June 1999 at Royal Perth Hospital from acute combined heroin and alcohol toxicity. On 11 June, after returning from Melbourne, he consumed approximately one litre of g…
29y · Male·Combined methadone, diazepam and clonazepam toxicity in a man commencing a metha…
…course in 2009. Dr D. conducted a perfunctory assessment without corroborating the patient's self-reported heroin use, failed to obtain collateral history from the patient's partner or previous medical providers, and pre…
57y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (heroin, methadone, benzodiazepines including novel benzodia…
…ndjeri man with longstanding opioid and benzodiazepine dependence, died from mixed drug toxicity involving heroin, methadone, prescribed diazepam, unprescribed benzodiazepines including the novel benzodiazepine bromazola…
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