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55y · Male·head injury sustained in a single motorcycle crash
A 55-year-old man with multiple comorbidities (bipolar disorder, OCD, asthma, bronchiectasis, methadone dependency) died from head injury sustained in a motorcycle crash. He was riding 3 weeks after a previous motorcycle…
48y · Male·combined drug intoxication from morphine and quetiapine
Brett Cashion, a 48-year-old man with chronic pain and mental health issues, died from combined morphine and quetiapine intoxication after injecting prescription morphine. He was receiving daily Subutex in Tasmania from …
44y · Male·Unascertained
Mark Beames, a 44-year-old Aboriginal man with epilepsy, acquired brain injury, and alcohol dependency, disappeared on 4 September 2014 from Swan Hill, Victoria. He had recently been discharged from hospital after self-d…
55y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity in a woman with cardiomegaly and chronic obstructive airway …
Janet Foster, 55, died from mixed drug toxicity involving heroin/morphine combined with benzodiazepines in the context of cardiomegaly and chronic obstructive airway disease. She was a voluntary palliative care patient a…
44y · Male·Heroin toxicity in the setting of ischaemic heart disease
Laurie Cartledge, a 44-year-old man with intellectual disability and acquired brain injury, died from heroin toxicity complicated by severe coronary artery atherosclerosis just one day after release from prison. He had b…
48y · Female·Ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Tania Marie Hodgkinson, a 48-year-old Aboriginal woman, died by suicide via ligature compression while remanded at Bandyup Women's Prison on 23 March 2017. She had been admitted with heroin withdrawal symptoms, grief fro…
27y · Female·Combined drug toxicity
XY, a 27-year-old woman, died from combined drug toxicity on 21–22 December 2016 at a friend's house in Melbourne. She had a history of opioid use, depression, and anxiety following a violent crime. She was enrolled in r…
Unknown·Alan Bugden: pulmonary thromboembolism after stroke. Amaru Bestrin: combined dru…
Two deaths occurred in hospital toilets due to undetected collapse in publicly accessible facilities. Alan Bugden, 66, suffered a stroke in an ambulatory care centre toilet at Royal North Shore Hospital and remained unde…
48y · Male·gunshot wounds to the right thigh and abdomen with fatal hemorrhage
A 48-year-old man with severe chronic pain, alcohol dependence, and mental health issues called police stating he was armed with knives and wanted to be shot. Despite being extensively supported by health services that d…
34y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
FDS, a 34-year-old male recently released from prison, died from mixed drug toxicity after injecting heroin in a public toilet. He had a long-standing complex drug history and relapsed shortly after release despite parol…
32y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (methadone, oxycodone, desmethylvenlafaxine, quetiapine, ola…
Liana Pickup, a 32-year-old woman with complex mental illness (bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, schizoaffective disorder), chronic back pain, and substance dependence, died from mixed drug toxicity afte…
35y · Male·Clozapine toxicity
A 35-year-old Aboriginal man with schizophrenia and alcohol use disorder died from clozapine toxicity while residing at a non-clinical peer recovery facility. He presented with psychiatric distress on 10 December 2016, r…
38y · Male·Unascertained; death in the waters of the Indian Ocean off Rottnest Island
Matthew James Bale, a 38-year-old man, disappeared from Rottnest Island on 21 March 2016 while on holiday with his wife and parents. He had a history of depression, alcohol and drug addiction, and recent drug-induced psy…
58y · Male·Heroin toxicity
58-year-old man with chronic 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)…
35y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury complicating cardiac arrest in the setting of combined hero…
Yara Sturak Mignon, a 35-year-old with a 10-year heroin addiction, was found unconscious in a restaurant bathroom on Victoria Street Richmond in November 2018. He had combined heroin, alcohol, and doxylamine (antihistami…
38y · Male·Toxicity to heroin
A 38-year-old man with a 24-year history of heroin addiction died from heroin toxicity shortly after release from prison. He had recently completed a 3-month custodial sentence and was released on 22 June 2018, dying on …
25y · Female·complications of opioid toxicity
Ellie Marlene Hare, 25, died from opioid toxicity after injecting methadone on two consecutive nights with Matthew Drake. She was opioid-naïve, having not used regularly for several years. On the morning of her death, Dr…
45y · Male·mixed drug toxicity (methadone and pregabalin) with possible contributing factor…
A 45-year-old man died in prison from mixed drug toxicity involving methadone and pregabalin, with possible contribution from morbid obesity. He had a history of opioid use and chronic pain from a foot injury. Despite re…
54y · Male·incised wound to the neck
Terrence Michael Malone, a 54-year-old man with a 20-year history of bipolar affective disorder, PTSD, and alcohol dependence, died by suicide in Brisbane Correctional Centre on 8 November 2014, three days after re-incar…
32y · Male·self-inflicted hanging
Sean Collins, a 32-year-old American chef on a work visa who became imprisoned in the Northern Territory, died by suicide in prison custody. He had multiple unaddressed risk factors: first incarceration, lengthy sentence…
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