183 results for “drug-induced psychosis”
31y · Male·Head and chest injury
Gyan Murray Jeffery, age 31, died from head and chest injuries sustained when struck by two motor vehicles on the South Western Highway at Argyle, Western Australia, on 30 September 2011. He had a longstanding history of…
37y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury complicating aspiration of gastric contents
Joelene Dowden, 37, died from hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury following aspiration of gastric contents. She presented at Alfred Hospital ED on 9 July 2017 with erratic behaviour, then went to a tram stop where she express…
19y · Male·Hanging
… a community rehabilitation facility after a complex mental health journey involving forensic orders and psychosis. Key clinical lessons include: recognising vulnerability in young people transitioning from acute care, …
40y · Male·combined drug toxicity in a man with asthma (undiagnosed) and sleep apnoea
Anthony Travaglini, a 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 recor…
29y · Female·gunshot wound to the abdomen
…riately discharged from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital following involuntary mental health admission for drug-induced psychosis; acute symptoms had resolved. The discharge was clinically sound with community follow-up arr…
24y · Male·multiple injuries and chest compression asphyxia (train strike)
…iatry referral was automatically cancelled but not reinstated. At discharge, he exhibited clear signs of psychosis and suicidality, yet received only a superficial assessment by a nursing staff member who did not thorou…
Unknown·Mia: Stab wound to heart; Thomas: Stab wound to brain
Two young UK backpackers, Mia Ayliffe-Chung (20) and Thomas Jackson (30), were fatally stabbed at a Queensland hostel on 23 August 2016 by a French backpacker, Smail Ayad, who was psychotic and cannabis-intoxicated. Ayad…
34y · Male·self-inflicted hanging
34-year-old Jordan Allen died by suicide on 1 February 2018 after absconding from Alice Springs Mental Health Unit during supervised cigarette leave. He was acutely psychotic with persecutory delusions related to methamp…
37y · Male·Sergeant Huitson: gunshot wound to chest and abdomen; Ansell: multiple gunshot w…
This coronial inquiry examined a shooting incident on 3 August 1999 where Rodney Ansell, a man suffering from deteriorating mental health and chronic amphetamine abuse, opened fire on the Stuart Highway killing Sergeant …
30y · Female·Hanging
A 30-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder, substance abuse history, and exposure to multiple family suicides (father, close friend, partner's mother) presented to Emergency Department after self-harm and s…
53y · Female·Ligature strangulation
Michelle Hughes, a 53-year-old woman serving her first prison sentence for assault committed during drug-induced psychosis, died by ligature strangulation in her cell at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre Women's Prison on 26…
38y · Female·Unable to be determined
Kellie Anne Levitski disappeared on 31 March 2014 from her father's property near Bega, NSW. She had schizoaffective disorder requiring intensive mental health support, depot antipsychotic injections, and multiple medica…
25y · Male·unable to determine
Tyrone Frederick MacQueen disappeared on 1 July 1994 at age 25. He had chronic schizophrenia with poor medication compliance, recent psychiatric hospitalization, expressed suicidal ideation, self-harm (wrist cutting), de…
35y · Female·neck and chest injuries and drowning due to intentional fall/jump from Tasman Br…
Jana Culic, aged 35, died by suicide jumping from the Tasman Bridge on 4 June 2020 while subject to a Mental Health Act treatment order for schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and bipolar disorder. She had a …
33y · Male·multi-drug toxicity as a result of misadventure
Adam Hayward, a 33-year-old with borderline personality disorder, poly-substance abuse, and a complex psychiatric history including recurrent suicidal ideation and overdoses, died from multi-drug toxicity in October 2009…
51y · Male·Stab wounds to the chest
A 51-year-old man with documented mental health issues including psychosis, paranoia, and delusions died from self-inflicted stab wounds during a police siege at his mother's home…
27y · Male·Dextromethorphan toxicity
Mr ZJF, a 27-year-old man with a longstanding history of schizophrenia, polysubstance use disorder, and depression, died from dextromethorphan toxicity. He was subject to a Community Treatment Order at the time of death …
62y · Female·hyponatremia (low sodium level 114mmol/L) resulting in seizure, with aspiration …
…der women and those with comorbidities; (2) excessive water drinking and vomiting are red flags for both psychosis and hyponatremia; (3) baseline bloods on psychiatric admission, even when patient cooperation is poor, a…
44y · Male·Complications of blunt head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (cycl…
…ver, who caused the collision, had a documented psychiatric history including schizophrenia, depression, psychosis, and polydrug abuse. Despite psychiatric treatment and psychiatric hospital admissions in 2010, the driv…
58y · Male·coronary artery arteriosclerosis (natural causes)
…te at the time despite later appearing to be early relapse. He re-presented on 22 April 2020 with florid psychosis and was admitted to BMHU under a Form 6A involuntary treatment order. He collapsed on 27 April 2020 and …
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