A drug overdose (overdose or OD) is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended. Typically...

Drug overdose and intoxication are significant causes of accidental death and can also be used as a form of suicide. Death can occur from overdosing on...

compared to single drugs, speedballs are more likely to lead to addiction, and users are more likely to relapse and also to overdose. Original speedball...

Combined drug intoxication (CDI), or multiple drug intake (MDI), is a cause of death by drug overdose from poly drug use, often implicated in polysubstance...

from drug overdoses, with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths. In 2017 alone, there were 70,237 recorded drug overdose...

country. A drug overdose involves taking a dose of a drug that exceeds safe levels. In the UK (England and Wales) until 2013, a drug overdose was the most...

Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2020, around 932...

Benzodiazepine overdose (BZD OD) describes the ingestion of one of the drugs in the benzodiazepine class in quantities greater than are recommended or...

efforts to prevent deaths from overdose include increasing access to naloxone and treatment for opioid dependence. Drug use contributes to 500,000 deaths...

until the drug has worn off. Psychiatric consult is generally recommended. People who are known to have died by suicide from barbiturate overdose include...

year increased from 2,600 overdoses to 70,601. Since 2018, fentanyl and its analogues have been responsible for most drug overdose deaths in the United States...

ingredients of lean) along with marijuana. Mac Miller, who died of a drug overdose not involving lean, spoke openly of his addiction to lean. On April...

people have few or non-specific symptoms in the first 24 hours following overdose. These symptoms include feeling tired, abdominal pain, or nausea. This...

prevent drug-related overdose deaths, reduce the acute risks of disease transmission through unhygienic injecting, and connect people who use drugs with...

marijuana. A drug overdose involves taking a dose of a drug that exceeds safe levels. In the UK (England and Wales) until 2013, a drug overdose was the most...

he could join the 27 Club," noting that Cobain "had nearly died from drug overdoses on at least two dozen occasions in the year before his death... [and]...

unclear. It is included as a part of emergency overdose response kits distributed to heroin and other opioid drug users, and to emergency responders. This has...

Monster Magnet's 2004 album. On February 27, 2006, Wyndorf overdosed on prescription drugs. An upcoming European tour for Monster Magnet was subsequently...

End Overdose, a California-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, seeks to confront the drug overdose epidemic by promoting evidence-based strategies and...

referenced in his lyrics. After a relapse, he died from an accidental drug overdose of cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol at his home at the age of 26. Malcolm...

2017, she was found dead in her California apartment of an apparent drug overdose. Beginning in 2003, Beltran began doing feature modeling and appearances...

have ravaged North America. An estimated 19,416 individuals died of a drug overdose in the United States in the first 3 months of 2020 compared with 16...

2023, 810 people died from accidental drug overdoses, a majority containing Fentanyl, in San Francisco, with overdoses per 100,000 people being more than...

struggled with obesity, alcoholism, and substance abuse. He died of a drug overdose at the age of 33. Farley was born Christopher Crosby Farley in Madison...

Grammy Awards. The song, which was recorded four days prior to her 2018 drug overdose, was released on iTunes immediately after. On February 2, 2020, Lovato...

benzodiazepines for these purposes because the latter are less toxic in drug overdose. However, barbiturates are still used as anticonvulsants (e.g., phenobarbital...

thrown from a plane and killed: his C.O. Colonel Trust believes it's a drug overdose. Ernesto's son Tommy, a high-ranking DEA agent, goes to Mexico and finds...

concomitant use of other drugs. However, serum drug levels are not useful for evaluating risk of arrhythmia or seizure in tricyclic overdose. Most of the toxic...

economic prospects are bleak. The three disease types are drug overdose (including alcohol overdose), suicide, and alcoholic liver disease. Diseases of despair...

throughout her career. Her mentor, Yams, died in 2015 of an accidental drug overdose. Her mother, Wendy Payne, died in 2017. In an interview with Pitchfork...