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Drug Overdose

Known as: Overdoses, Drug, Overdose, Drug Overdoses 
Accidental or deliberate use of a medication or street drug in excess of normal dosage.
National Institutes of Health

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INTENTIONAL OVERDOSE

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Review
2016
Review
2016
Increasing Benzodiazepine Prescriptions and Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1996-2013.
OBJECTIVES To describe trends in benzodiazepine prescriptions and overdose mortality involving benzodiazepines among US adults… 
Review
2013
Review
2013
Heroin use and heroin use risk behaviors among nonmedical users of prescription opioid pain relievers - United States, 2002-2004 and 2008-2010.
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Self-harm in England: a tale of three cities
BackgroundSelf-harm is a major healthcare problem in the United Kingdom, but monitoring of hospital presentations has largely… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Reasons for deliberate self-harm: comparison of self-poisoners and self-cutters in a community sample of adolescents.
OBJECTIVE To compare motives and premeditation between adolescent deliberate self-poisoners and self-cutters. METHOD In a… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Prolonged oral etoposide as second-line therapy for platinum-resistant and platinum-sensitive ovarian carcinoma: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study.
PURPOSE A phase II trial was conducted to determine the activity of prolonged oral etoposide in platinum-resistant and platinum… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Overdose among heroin users in Sydney, Australia: I. Prevalence and correlates of non-fatal overdose.
A sample of 329 heroin users were interviewed regarding their personal experience of non-fatal heroin overdose. Experience of… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Molecular Mapping of Twenty-Four Features of Down Syndrome on Chromosome 21
To determine which regions of chromosome 21 are involved in the pathogenesis of specific features of Down syndrome, we analysed… 
Review
1987
Review
1987
Medication error prevention by clinical pharmacists in two children's hospitals.
The purpose of this study was to record prospectively the frequency of and potential harm caused by errant medication orders at… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Heroin "overdose" death: contribution of drug-associated environmental cues.
A model of "overdose" deaths among heroin addicts is proposed which emphasizes recent findings concerning the contribution of… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
The Naked Ape
lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long 'forgotten' set of purely… 
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