88 results for “heroin dependence”
29y · Male·Aspiration due to acute gastric dilatation
Mark Herricane, aged 29, died of aspiration from acute gastric dilatation during opioid withdrawal in custody at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre on 3 January 2002. Despite repeated intercom calls requesting medical hel…
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 He had been successfully withdrawn from opioids (MS Contin, Endone) during a March 2016 hospital…
40y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
Shae Paszkiewicz, a 40-year-old man with a long history of drug dependence and incarceration, died from mixed drug toxicity five days after being found unconscious following opioi…
17y · Female·Combined Drug Toxicity (heroin, alprazolam and diazepam)
…7-year-old female with complex mental health and substance use disorders died from combined drug toxicity (heroin, alprazolam, and diazepam) following release from youth detention. Despite extensive involvement from drug…
56y · Female·combined drug toxicity (methadone, diazepam, amitriptyline and mirtazapine); pul…
…icity involving methadone, diazepam, amitriptyline, and mirtazapine. She had a long history of substance dependence and had voluntarily ceased methadone treatment five months prior to death. She obtained methadone illega…
54y · Male·Methadone use in a man with asthma and sarcoidosis of the lungs
…tanding opioid use disorder progressing from prescribed morphine to buprenorphine patches, then oxycodone, heroin, and methamphetamine. The coroner emphasised that methadone diversion represents a substantial public heal…
37y · Male·Neck compression and the complications thereof
…cute methamphetamine-induced psychosis with paranoia and aggression, complicated by severe polysubstance dependence. Although some mental state improvement was noted by 21 July, he remained psychotic with poor insight an…
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…
37y · Male·Cardiomegaly giving rise to lethal cardiac arrhythmia in the setting of drug tox…
… placed in detoxification requiring four-hourly clinical observations after assessment for withdrawal from heroin, methamphetamine and benzodiazepines. Critical failures occurred: nursing staff did not read clinical note…
17y · Female·Combined drug toxicity (heroin, codeine, methadone, benzodiazepines)
Hannah Charles, a 17-year-old with substance abuse issues, died from combined drug toxicity (heroin, codeine, methadone, benzodiazepines) at a private residence where she had been staying with two opioid re…
Female·Vlasta Wylucki: ischaemic heart disease due to coronary atherosclerosis (previou…
Two women died of natural causes in Queensland police watchhouses but supervisory failures raised serious concerns. Ms Wylucki (50) died from ischaemic heart disease after inadequate cell checks failed to detect her vomi…
26y · Male·Gunshot wound to head
…ed his arrest. He was a known violent offender with a 10-year criminal history and substance abuse issues (heroin, amphetamines, benzodiazepines). Following his involvement in Brian Bottomley's murder on 2 February 2005,…
Male·toxicity caused by a combination of methylamphetamine and morphine
Felipe Esteban Alvarez died on 30 March 2021 from toxicity caused by methylamphetamine and morphine (heroin) ingestion at his unit in Taylor, ACT. He collapsed after self-injecting heroin in the presence of others,…
28y · Male·consistent with drowning
Benjamin Pappas, a 28-year-old with a history of substance abuse, depression, borderline personality disorder, and suicidal ideation, died by drowning on approximately 4 March 2007, following the discovery that his partn…
40y · Female·acute right-sided congestive heart failure (cor pulmonale) resulting from intrav…
…azolam tablets. She had a long history of opioid and polysubstance abuse, with recent escalation involving heroin, amphetamine, and oxycodone. She was enrolled in Tasmania's opioid pharmacotherapy program receiving daily…
<1y · Female·Morphine toxicity
… prescribing doctor (Dr S.) failing to recognize and appropriately manage the parents' escalating opioid dependence and drug-seeking behaviour despite clear warning signs; failure to refer them to addiction treatment ser…
42y · Male·acute methadone intoxication
…lliam Lowe, a 42-year-old man with treatment-resistant epilepsy, schizophrenia, and long-standing opioid dependence, died from acute methadone intoxication on 12-13 August 2018. Evidence strongly indicates he injected hi…
55y · Male·decompensated liver failure in a man with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, w…
…ative care. He had pre-existing cirrhosis diagnosed in 2012, likely from hepatitis C and chronic alcohol dependence. In October 2023, abdominal pain investigations revealed advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with portal v…
31y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity
A 31-year-old woman with long-standing opioid dependence enrolled in the Queensland Opioid Treatment Program died from mixed drug toxicity, with toxic levels of …
15y · Male·Combined heroin and methamphetamine toxicity
T, a 15-year-old boy subject to a Care by Secretary Order, died from combined heroin and methamphetamine toxicity on 24 November 2019. He had experienced multiple placement instability (over …
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