35 results for “substance abuse and dependency”
43y · Male·hypoxic brain injury caused by cardiac arrest due to unintentional drug poisonin…
A 43-year-old man with long-standing opioid use disorder and polysubstance dependence died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest…
27y · Male·chest and abdominal injuries from single motorcycle crash
Jacob Wilson, aged 27, died from chest and abdominal injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on 22 January 2018. He was travelling to a scheduled men…
42y · Male·mixed prescription drug toxicity (sertraline, amlodipine, lamotrigine, quetiapin…
…g toxicity (sertraline, amlodipine, lamotrigine, quetiapine) in a suicide by overdose. He had severe, longstanding bipolar II disorder with chronic suicidality, complicated by alcohol/drug dependence and multiple physic…
23y · Male·hanging
…old male with treatment-resistant schizophrenia died by hanging while an involuntary patient in the High Dependency Unit of Royal North Shore Hospital. He presented acutely on 4 February 2019 with severe suicidal ideatio…
33y · Male·hanging
Brian Dewson, a 33-year-old man with a 12-year history of drug and alcohol abuse, multiple psychiatric assessments (antisocial personality disorder, depression), and prior su…
26y · Female·morphine toxicity complicated terminally by bronchopneumonia
A 26-year-old woman with chronic migraines and depression died from morphine toxicity complicated by aspiration pneumonia. She had a documented history of…
64y · Female·Combined toxicity to alcohol and baclofen
Anna Lawrence, 64, died from combined toxicity of alcohol and baclofen on 30 April 2020. She had a 40+ year history of alcohol dependency, borderline personality disorde…
48y · Male·gunshot wound to chest
… police siege on 6 December 2021. After escalating behaviour at his NDIS support office in Stretton, Queensland, Peter produced what police believed was a firearm (later identified as a gel blaster replica). During a pr…
Christopher Salib: ischaemic heart disease with multiple prescription drug toxic…
This landmark inquest examined three deaths involving prescription drug toxicity: Christopher Salib (24, ischaemic he…
44y · Male·Hanging
Colin Wayne Blair, a 44-year-old Aboriginal man with a history of mental illness and substance use, died by hanging in the High Dependency Unit of Brisbane Correctional Centre on 13 November 2…
smoke inhalation and burns from deliberately-lit fire (primary cause varies by i…
… intoxicated at a previous hospital (St John of God) but this was not communicated to Quakers Hill despite mandatory notification requirements. Employment screening at Quakers Hill was perfunctory—no reference checks, n…
50y · Male·Hanging
…'s disease died by hanging in a psychiatric inpatient unit while on a Temporary Treatment Order. His mental and behavioural symptoms were secondary to Parkinson's disease and its treatments rather than primary psychiatr…
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…
25y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia secondary to methadone toxicity
… died of aspiration pneumonia secondary to methadone toxicity on 27 May 2016, while incarcerated at the Alexander Maconochie Centre in the ACT. He was assessed as opioid naive despite representations of heroin use and p…
26y · Female·Multiple drug toxicity
…ed 26, died from accidental drug overdose caused by multiple prescription medications—predominantly codeine and doxepin in combination with benzodiazepines. She had accessed prescription drugs from at least 13 different…
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