Read the labels of any cold medication carefully to make sure you're not overdosing.

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The laws have been designed to regulate vitamin and mineral content, to protect consumers from overdosing.

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After a week of Olympic overdosing, the image of a gymnast sticking a landing comes to mind.

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However, taking oral oestrogen pills caused significant health problems by overdosing the liver.

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Just over a month after he was moved the new placement had broken down, resulting in incidents of self-harm and overdosing on pills.

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Holdsclaw recounted how she attempted suicide in 2006 as a member of the Los Angeles Sparks by overdosing on the medication she was taking for clinical depression.

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But Evans who had depression and a personality disorder found it difficult to cope and considered taking her own life by jumping off her balcony and overdosing on Mr Ballinger's morphine tablets.

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The family of former Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard, who died in May 2011 after overdosing on alcohol and painkilling medication, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the NHL, one of the family's attorneys confirmed Sunday.

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It also increases the risk of overdosing.

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