128 results for “benzodiazepine use disorder”
31y · Male·Multidrug overdose including heroin
LP, a 31-year-old man with depression, severe anxiety, and substance use disorder, died from multidrug overdose including heroin. He had long-standing benzodiazepine (Xanax) abuse …
35y · Female·combined drug toxicity
A 35-year-old woman with long-standing substance use disorder, depression, and chronic pain died from combined drug toxicity involving methadone, pregabalin, me…
28y · Female·methadone toxicity
A 28-year-old woman with a history of mental illness and substance use disorder died from methadone toxicity five days after recommencing methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) afte…
59y · Female·Global hypoxic brain injury due to mixed drug toxicity, specifically alprazolam …
A 59-year-old woman with a 30-year history of alprazolam dependence for anxiety disorder died from global hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest caused by mixed drug toxicity, with alpraz…
57y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (heroin, methadone, benzodiazepines including novel benzodia…
Raymond John Flaherty, a 57-year-old Wurundjeri man with longstanding opioid and benzodiazepine dependence, died from mixed drug toxicity involving heroin, methadone, prescribed diazepam, unprescrib…
28y · Male·Multiple head, facial and spinal injuries sustained in a single vehicle motorbik…
… through a bend. Toxicology detected therapeutic/sub-therapeutic levels of prescribed CNS depressants (benzodiazepines, opioids, antidepressants). Key clinical lessons: (1) Mr Tyrrell had documented substance use disorde…
53y · Female·Unintentional mixed prescription drug toxicity (morphine and diazepam) together …
…ase significantly increases vulnerability to CNS depressants; and the dangers of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use. The case highlights risks of informal medication sharing among vulnerable patients with substance…
30y · Male·Drowning due to jumping from the Batman Bridge
A 30-year-old man with opioid use disorder, anxiety, and depression died by suicide from jumping the Batman Bridge. He had been prescribed es…
22y · Male·Combined drug toxicity (alprazolam, methadone, diazepam, dextromethorphan and op…
…thadone, diazepam, dextromethorphan). He manipulated multiple GPs by misrepresenting his tolerance and drug use, obtaining escalating benzodiazepine prescriptions from concurrent practitioners (Kinetic and Subiaco) with…
38y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
…dating medications and alcohol. He had longstanding severe anxiety and became dependent on codeine and benzodiazepines, initially obtained from multiple prescribers ('doctor shopping'). After disclosure of his dependence…
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…
22y · Male·Combined drug toxicity (methadone and benzodiazepines)
…2-year-old man recently released from prison, died from combined drug toxicity involving methadone and benzodiazepines. He consumed methadone takeaway doses prescribed to his housemate Ms Rattya without her knowledge or …
25y · Female·Compression of the neck
…5-year-old woman, died by suicide via neck compression while intoxicated. She had a history of substance misuse (cocaine, alcohol), anxiety treated with Zoloft, and was taking alprazolam. On the morning of her death, sh…
52y · Male·septicaemia caused by Streptococcus Milleri group pneumonia
Kurt Mellick Andriske, 52, died from septicaemia caused by Streptococcus Milleri pneumonia, with drug toxicity as a contributing factor. He was a complex patient …
37y · Male·mixed drug toxicity with fentanyl as the principal agent
… idiopathic intracranial hypertension requiring multiple neurosurgeries and was prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines. He developed addiction to these medications, engaged in 'doctor shopping' across multiple practices,…
59y · Male·Unascertained
Jonathan Townsend, a 59-year-old Navy veteran with PTSD, alcohol use disorder, and multiple psychiatric comorbidities, died at home on 5 November 2021. The cause of death was u…
51y · Female·undetermined - either citalopram toxicity or ischaemic heart disease
…ally lethal citalopram level, and autopsy showed significant atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. The cause of death was undetermined, as either citalopram toxicity or ischaemic heart disease could have been fatal. …
34y · Male·mixed drug overdose (heroin, methadone, codeine, diazepam, nitrazepam, oxazepam …
34-year-old male with longstanding opioid and benzodiazepine dependence who overdosed following discharge from hospital. He was hospitalized on 22 September 2010 a…
19y · Male·mixed drug toxicity (methadone and diazepam)
… male died from mixed drug toxicity following ingestion of illicit methadone and diazepam. He was a regular user of illicit substances and prescription medications obtained without medical supervision. He had anxiety ma…
51y · Female·combined effects of ischaemic and valvular heart disease and combined drug (doth…
…e was discovered lying on the floor by her mother and sister the following morning. The coroner found the cause of death to be the combined effects of ischaemic and valvular heart disease and combined drug intoxication …
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