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32y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
…medication following an argument. Paramedics assessed him as having capacity, appearing alert and denying overdose, and decided not to transport him to hospital. Key clinical lessons: the deceased displayed signs concern…
69y · Male·amitriptyline and alcohol toxicity with ischaemic heart disease
… 69-year-old man with longstanding anxiety, depression, heavy alcohol use, and multiple prior intentional overdoses of amitriptyline died from combined amitriptyline and alcohol toxicity with underlying ischaemic heart d…
46y · Female·Combined drug toxicity in a woman found in a bath
…isorder and bipolar affective disorder type 2 died from combined drug toxicity. She had a long history of overdose attempts, often without clear suicidal intent, and was under care of multiple mental health services. Cri…
49y · Female·Bronchopneumonia, hypoxic brain injury, and combined drug toxicity (oxycodone an…
…ury caused by combined drug toxicity (oxycodone and diazepam). She was found unconscious at home after an overdose and did not regain consciousness despite resuscitation. Over 15 months prior to death, she had seven hosp…
56y · Female·Combined drug toxicity
…on 15 June 2012, during which she obtained prescription medications from a pharmacy. She ingested a fatal overdose overnight and was found unresponsive the next morning. The clinical team, including her treating psychiat…
44y · Male·Heroin toxicity in the setting of ischaemic heart disease
…nce after prison abstinence. Key clinical lessons: (1) recently released prisoners face markedly elevated overdose death risk; (2) cognitive impairment significantly hampers engagement with harm-reduction programs; (3) r…
44y · Female·Mixed alcohol and drug toxicity (tapentadol, diazepam, mirtazapine, amitriptylin…
Aisha Natasha Khan, 44, died from mixed alcohol and drug toxicity following an intentional polypharmacy overdose with alcohol consumption. She had a history of depression, alcohol use disorder, chronic pain, and two pr…
39y · Male·Multidrug toxicity (GHB, methylamphetamine, ketamine) in a setting of restraint …
Anthony Parisi, 39, died from multidrug toxicity (GHB, methamphetamine, ketamine) in a setting of police restraint and moderate coronary artery atherosclerosis. He consumed large quantities of GHB and methamphetamine on …
Unknown·Toxicity to protonitazene
Four people died from protonitazene toxicity on 24 June 2024 after inhaling what they believed was cocaine but which was adulterated with protonitazene, an extremely potent synthetic opioid (100 times more potent than he…
24y · Male·Aspiration of vomit associated with combined drug effect
… argument about drug debts and confessing to a service station robbery, he fled claiming to have taken an overdose. His body was found on 28 January 2001 in bush. The coroner found supervision and care adequate but noted…
13y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy secondary to gamma hydroxybutyrate toxicity
…m hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy secondary to gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) toxicity following accidental overdose. She ingested an estimated 6-9mls of GHB in early June 2017, having used the drug only once previously. J…
39y · Male·clozapine toxicity
…st-mortem analysis showed clozapine at 4.6 mg/L (therapeutic range 0.35-0.6 mg/L), indicating one or more overdoses. Expert evidence established the clozapine level was not artifactual despite eight-day post-mortem inter…
48y · Male·multi drug toxicity (GHB and methyl-amphetamine)
David Luc Monlun, a 48-year-old businessman, died on 30 May 2011 from multi-drug toxicity involving GHB and methyl-amphetamine. The inquest determined his death occurred in suspicious circumstances. He was found deceased…
49y · Female·combined prescription drug intoxication (zopiclone, amitriptyline, periciazine)
… doses. The coroner could not definitively determine whether this was intentional self-harm or accidental overdose taken to relieve psychological symptoms. She had mentioned five months earlier considering stockpiling pi…
22y · Male·Mixed Diflunisal and Buproprion (Zyban) toxicity
… delayed intubation despite seizures and declining consciousness, and failure to recognise the multi-drug overdose despite positive paracetamol and salicylate blood tests. The patient's non-disclosure of diflunisal was a…
91y · Female·Sub-dural haemorrhage due to head injury due to fall
A 91-year-old woman was admitted to hospital after accidental paracetamol overdose and was found to have had a recent right occipital lobe infarction. While receiving appropriate care, she…
86y · Female·Unable to be determined
…range 0.61–1.6mg/kg). A clinical pharmacologist opined that such high concentrations likely resulted from overdose (intentional or non-intentional) and might have increased risk of cardiotoxicity or seizure, particularly…
44y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating cardiac arrest in the setting of p…
…rrest in the setting of presumed drug toxicity. She was found unconscious in the street after an apparent overdose involving multiple substances (opioids, benzodiazepines, methamphetamine, and others). She was resuscitat…
31y · Male·mixed drug toxicity
A 31-year-old man died from mixed drug toxicity involving a lethal combination of fentanyl, ketamine, hydromorphone, morphine, codeine, paracetamol and cannabinoids. The deceased had access to powerful palliative medicat…
63y · Female·Insulin overdose (suicide)
Marcia Maynard, a 63-year-old registered nurse at Woodford Correctional Centre, died by insulin overdose on 3 October 2015 after self-administering the drug at a hotel. She was required to give evidence at an i…
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