Sentence examples for massive overdose from inspiring English sources

Perhaps no one was very surprised when he died, from a massive overdose of the drug Heminevrin, a sedative prescribed for alcohol-withdrawal symptoms.

Beneath the surface, however, Enovid was a chemical swamp, for, amid sworn assurances of safety, it began its commercial life as a massive overdose.

When they returned in the morning, they learned a nurse had misread a label and given the babies what amounted to a massive overdose of the drug.

She had tried to remove as much as possible in the shower, but a large amount of heroin was entering her body, and she was entering a massive overdose.

Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty On April 14 1988, Kenneth Williams spent a few hours on chores, ate fishcakes for lunch on his own and then - tormented by stomach pain and worn out by his ailing mother - downed a massive overdose of barbiturates and alcohol.

Following an accidental massive overdose while tabletting, I ended up switching with one of my friends.

During the 1980s a bug in the software of Therac-25 radiotherapy machines caused massive overdoses of radiation to be delivered to several patients, killing at least five.

March 2005 — Computer Error Not Spotted A male patient in his early 40s received three massive overdoses of radiation to his brain stem because a device that shaped and modulated the beam was mistakenly left open.

In the 1980s a bug in the software of one type of radiotherapy machine caused massive overdoses of radiation to be delivered to several patients, killing at least five of them.

The authors grossly exaggerated the numbers of deaths attributed to the accidental misuse of acetaminophen by failing to mention that the majority involved suicides; and they omitted salient details about the nature of the lawsuits — facts about massive overdoses administered to children and underlying medical conditions that contributed to cases of adult deaths.

Rarely, after massive overdoses, patients may develop symptoms of metabolic acidosis and coma early in the course of poisoning.