Sometimes the elders were sick from unwittingly taking overdoses they thought were different medicines.
There are no more overdoses and above all we don't have any deaths anymore.
According to the Governor, more Kentuckians die from prescription drug overdoses than from car accidents.
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The company believes that these antibodies might one day be useful for treating cocaine overdoses.
That can increase the risk of dangerous overdoses, and worsen or even trigger substance abuse problems.
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About a fifth of these are thought to be accidental overdoses and the rest deliberate.
Carl Owens and David Davies, both aged 22, died of fatal overdoses in May and September 1994 respectively.
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Some panelists cited data that suggests that combination over-the-counter drugs account for less than 10 percent of acetaminophen overdoses.
Prosecutors said Majors gave his victims fatal overdoses and that some of the injections were witnessed by their loved ones.
Several months after the overdose was given, the Beatson was found to have given a series of other patients radiation overdoses.
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Ewy does agree that some patients -- including young children, and victims of drug overdoses and near-drownings -- should receive rescue breaths.
They are at greater risks of falls, infections, or even drug overdoses.
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One review study from 2011 found that in the U.S. 47% of all caffeine overdoses occurred in people under 19 years old.
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It's common for people to take Tylenol in addition to flu medications that may also contain acetaminophen, which can lead to acetaminophen overdoses.
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The forms of self harm recorded by hospitals included drugs overdoses, attempted hanging and deliberate injury with a sharp object such as a knife.
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, deaths caused by accidental overdoses on prescription drugs increased from 588 statewide in 2006 to 735 statewide in 2010.
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The Post article, titled "The Other Walter Reed, " said outpatients at the facility also include veterans who suffer from depression and were involved in overdoses and suicide attempts.
The agency hopes this will result in fewer acetaminophen overdoses.
When my parents passed the mashed potatoes at the dinner table it regularly came with a spoonful of stories about tragic motorcycle accidents, drug overdoses and houses that caught fire from plugged-in toasters.
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As a result of Washington State switching from safer pain medication, such as OxyContin, to the cheaper but much riskier methadone, at least 2, 173 people died between 2003 and 2011 from accidental overdoses.
And although they forged a career as one of the best-selling rock bands in history, the only thing rock 'n' roll about them is their music -- no drug overdoses, no sex scandals, no trashing of hotel rooms.
However, a 2000 study led by David Gunnell at the University of Bristol suggested that some people may have turned to drug overdoses instead, with those rates rising at the same time that suicides by gas decreased from 1973 to 1975.
Although acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used drugs in the United States for treating pain and fever, overdoses of acetaminophen have been linked to 56, 000 emergency room visits, 26, 000 hospitalizations and 458 deaths during the 1990s, according to the FDA, citing one study.
The reasons for the decline remain unclear, but researchers offered possible explanations, including a spike in prescription drug overdoses among young whites, higher rates of smoking among less educated white women, rising obesity, and a steady increase in the number of the least educated Americans who lack health insurance.
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