35 results for “prescription drug dependency”
42y · Male·mixed prescription drug toxicity (sertraline, amlodipine, lamotrigine, quetiapin…
Luke Trevor Young, 42, died from mixed prescription drug toxicity (sertraline, amlodipine, lamotrigine, quetiapine) in a suicide by overdose. He had severe…
49y · Female·Bronchopneumonia, hypoxic brain injury, and combined drug toxicity (oxycodone an…
Karen Moore, aged 49, died from bronchopneumonia following hypoxic brain injury caused by combined drug toxicity (oxycodone and diazepam). She was found unconscious at home after an overdose and did not regain c…
Unknown·Christopher Salib: ischaemic heart disease with multiple prescription drug toxic…
This landmark inquest examined three deaths involving prescription drug toxicity: Christopher Salib (24, ischaemic heart disease with drug toxicity), Nathan Attard (34, m…
39y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiorespiratory arrest due to methadon…
A 39-year-old woman with opioid dependency died from cardiac arrest caused by methadone toxicity. She had been prescribed up to six take-away doses…
26y · Female·Multiple drug toxicity
Alissa Campbell, aged 26, died from accidental drug overdose caused by multiple prescription medications—predominantly codeine and doxepin in combination with …
Unknown·Erfinna Lay: Aspiration resulting from Acute Multiple Drug Toxicity; John Quirk:…
Two young people died from acute multiple drug toxicity in 2005. Erfinna Lay (22, female) died from aspiration after ingesting chloral hydrate prescribed …
38y · Male·Organizing pneumonia with loculated pleural effusion in the setting of drug use …
Paul Kanis, a 38-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder, drug dependency, diabetes, and asthma, died from organizing pneumonia with loculated pleural effusion in the set…
64y · Female·Combined toxicity to alcohol and baclofen
…d from combined toxicity of alcohol and baclofen on 30 April 2020. She had a 40+ year history of alcohol dependency, borderline personality disorder, depression, and multiple suicide attempts. Baclofen was prescribed off…
40y · Male·combined drug toxicity in a man with asthma (undiagnosed) and sleep apnoea
… 40-year-old with schizoaffective disorder, severe sleep apnoea, and undiagnosed asthma, died from combined drug toxicity on a psychiatric high-dependency unit. Critically, his earlier clinical records documenting sleep …
21y · Male·combined effect of a cocktail of drugs causing central nervous system depression…
…1-year-old with polysubstance addiction and mental health issues, died from positional asphyxia following a drug overdose on 6 January 2010. He presented to the Emergency Department that afternoon after overdosing on met…
38y · Male·Toxicity to heroin
…verdose risk due to reduced opioid tolerance after enforced abstinence, combined with access to more potent drugs and potential purity variations. Despite brief post-release engagement (accommodation support, GP referral…
54y · Male·carbon monoxide asphyxia
Dallas Brooks Shrimpton, a 54-year-old man with severe alcohol dependence, chronic depression, and multiple previous suicide attempts, died by carbon monoxide asphyxiation. He presented to Royal Hobart Hospital ED on 16 …
44y · Male·Unascertained
… man, died in Port Phillip Prison on 14 February 2017. Post-mortem examination revealed multiple prescribed drugs (methadone, mirtazapine, pregabalin) and unprescribed drugs (clonazepam, tramadol) capable of causing cent…
Unknown·Troy Thomas Lee: acute neck compression due to hanging; Scott Leslie Matthews: m…
…e on home detention bail awaiting trial. Troy Thomas Lee (38, hanging) and Scott Leslie Matthews (23, mixed drug toxicity from tramadol and alprazolam overdose) both died on their parents' premises. Neither had been iden…
25y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia secondary to methadone toxicity
… use and prescribed 30 mg methadone daily after two doses. The coroner found the medical assessment and prescription decisions, though lacking formal assessment tools and urinalysis testing, fell within acceptable clinic…
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