"There is an increase of fake drugs in the market that have resulted in several cases of drug resistance to the Aids virus as a result of misuse.
As a result of misuse of antibiotics, different pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant.
Prompted by an investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) which found hundreds of allegations that children have been abused, and some even died as a result of misuses of restrain and seclusion, Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee is championing two bills through Congress.
Good hand hygiene practices may suffer as a result of misuse of gloves and may subsequently increase MRSA rates.
As a result of the misuse of prescription drugs at Williams Medical Center, a woman is dead and a man is paralyzed.
In January 2003, five people died in fires in New York City as a result of the misuse of space heaters, according to the Fire Department.
In the five-year period examined by the report, another 58 women died as a result of substance misuse and two from other mental-health related issues, taking the total number of mental health-related deaths to 161, equivalent to 17% of the total number of maternal deaths.
"Trust in the internet is declining as a result of data misuse, hacking and privacy intrusion", said Axel Lehmann, chief risk officer at Zurich Financial Group and who also worked on the report.
Twitter says it's already identified "a large number" of suspected spam accounts as a result of investigating misuse of an old part of its signup flow — saying these are "primarily follow spammers", i.e. spambots who automatically or bulk followed verified or other high-profile accounts at the point of sign up.
Fewer women use drugs than men, but more are dying as a result of substance misuse.
Puzzlingly, it appears that fewer are using, yet more are dying as a result of substance misuse.
