I talked to a diabetic who casually mentioned a cousin who had deliberately overdosed on insulin.
There, he asserted that a multinational drug company was deliberately overdosing AIDS patients with AZT because it was profitable to do so.
He modelled himself on, among others, Robert Malaval, an artist admired and encouraged by Dalí, who described himself as a "suicide of the art world", and who deliberately overdosed on heroin in 1980 while listening to Richard Hell's punk anthem Blank Generation.
They've told us that they deliberately overdosed because that's the only way to get a bed.
Krystal gets raped by a drug deal, her three-year-old half brother falls into the river and drowns while she's having sex in a park, and finally she kills herself, deliberately overdosing on her mother's heroin.
MALA was diagnosed in 10 patients, none had deliberately overdosed (daily metformin dose of 1,900 ± 356 mg), but all had severe renal failure (median admission serum creatinine of 776 μmol/L, range of 347 to 1,502) that had not been noticed before.
The following questions were used to identify deliberate self harm: "Have you ever deliberately taken an overdose (e.g. pills or other medication) or tried to harm yourself in some other way (such as cut yourself)?" with response options: No/Yes, once/Yes, more than once.
There is a simple way to make medication less accessible for those who would deliberately or accidentally overdose — and that is packaging.
She recalled the winter night in her car nine years ago when she deliberately shot an overdose of heroin and cocaine into her veins.
Information on lifetime episodes of self-harm was based on a semistructured interview including the following question adopted from a previous European study of self-harm (CASE-study): "Have you ever deliberately taken an overdose (e.g., of pills or other medication) or tried to harm yourself in some other way (such as cut yourself)?" [ 26, 27].
b Most common wording of the single question was: " Have you ever deliberately taken an overdose or tried to harm yourself in some other way?" or, "Have you ever intentionally harmed yourself?" Another characteristic that appears salient in the current data is that a majority of studies utilize single item assessments for self-injury, regardless if the definition is NSSI or DSH.
