28 results for “benzodiazepine dependency”
38y · Male·Toxic effects of morphine in a setting of benzodiazepine dependency
A 38-year-old man with chronic pain, mental illness, and benzodiazepine dependency died from morphine toxicity. He obtained multiple benzodiazepines and opioids from five dif…
38y · Female·mixed drug toxicity (lethal level of dothiepin, potentially lethal level of morp…
A 38-year-old woman with long-standing heroin and benzodiazepine dependence died from mixed drug toxicity following injection of heroin. Her GP had prescribed multiple…
53y · Female·Combined drug toxicity (propranolol and insulin)
A 53-year-old registered nurse with longstanding depression, anxiety and benzodiazepine dependency died from combined drug toxicity (propranolol and insulin) in what was determined to be an …
26y · Male·Multiple drug toxicity and bronchopneumonia
…taining OxyContin from ENT anaesthetist Dr R., who was unaware of his drug addict status and past opioid dependency. The deceased concealed his current registered drug addict status from Dr R., presenting only a history …
22y · Male·Combined drug toxicity (alprazolam, methadone, diazepam, dextromethorphan and op…
…phan). He manipulated multiple GPs by misrepresenting his tolerance and drug use, obtaining escalating benzodiazepine prescriptions from concurrent practitioners (Kinetic and Subiaco) without their knowledge of each othe…
44y · Male·Combined drug effect (oxycodone and benzodiazepines)
…n addiction registered as a drug addict in 2010 died from combined drug effect involving oxycodone and benzodiazepines. Despite being a registered drug addict, he obtained prescriptions for oxycodone from two different d…
40y · Male·combined drug toxicity in a man with asthma (undiagnosed) and sleep apnoea
…der, severe sleep apnoea, and undiagnosed asthma, died from combined drug toxicity on a psychiatric high-dependency unit. Critically, his earlier clinical records documenting sleep apnoea were not available to treating c…
64y · Female·hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy caused by neck compression and hanging
…n the context of inadequate search procedures for ligature risks, particularly inconsistency between low dependency and high dependency units. Staff believed harmful items had been removed, but documentation was inadequa…
4y · Male·Oxycodone toxicity from ingestion of 80mg OxyContin tablet
…d remained accessible to the child. His parents were chronically dependent on prescription opioids and benzodiazepines, frequently incapacitated and unable to supervise him. The Department of Human Services closed child …
22y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (tapentadol, clonazepam, citalopram, amphetamine, olanzapine…
…hicle accident, died from mixed drug toxicity involving eight substances including prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, and unprescribed ketamine. He had a documented substance use disorder and engaged in prescription sh…
Unknown·Erfinna Lay: Aspiration resulting from Acute Multiple Drug Toxicity; John Quirk:…
Two young people died from acute multiple drug toxicity in 2005. Erfinna Lay (22, female) died from aspiration after ingesting chloral hydrate prescribed to her partner. John Quirk (27, male) died from doloxene overdose …
38y · Male·Organizing pneumonia with loculated pleural effusion in the setting of drug use …
Paul Kanis, a 38-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder, drug dependency, diabetes, and asthma, died from organizing pneumonia with loculated pleural effusion in the setting of …
56y · Male·Aspiration of gastric content secondary to combined drug toxicity
…ation of gastric content secondary to combined drug toxicity. He had a long history of prescription drug dependency and multiple mental health issues. Two general practitioners prescribed long-term benzodiazepines (diaze…
58y · Male·Heroin toxicity
…-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) d…
38y · Male·Toxicity to heroin
…mal addiction treatment and appears to have rapidly resumed heroin use. The combination of heroin with benzodiazepines (diazepam, clonazepam) and zopiclone detected at autopsy was fatally toxic. Earlier, more assertive e…
21y · Male·combined effect of a cocktail of drugs taken by him, which caused central nervou…
Paul Fennessy, 21 years old, died from a cocktail of drugs causing central nervous system and respiratory depression with positional asphyxia on 6 January 2010. He had a decade-long history of polysubstance abuse, doctor…
39y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiorespiratory arrest due to methadon…
A 39-year-old woman with opioid dependency died from cardiac arrest caused by methadone toxicity. She had been prescribed up to six take-away doses…
34y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
…ness, and multiple previous suicide attempts, died by hanging on 11 March 2012. He had been prescribed benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax) and consumed high quantities along with alcohol and methamphetamine on the day of dea…
25y · Male·Cardiorespiratory failure due to unpredictable additive effect of combination of…
George Shoobridge, a 25-year-old man with a long history of polydrug addiction, died from cardiorespiratory failure caused by the unpredictable additive effect of multiple drugs in combination (diazepam, morphine, codein…
49y · Female·Bronchopneumonia, hypoxic brain injury, and combined drug toxicity (oxycodone an…
Karen Moore, aged 49, died from bronchopneumonia following hypoxic brain injury caused by combined drug toxicity (oxycodone and diazepam). She was found unconscious at home after an overdose and did not regain consciousn…
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