Sentence examples for overdose from inspiring English sources

Paracetamol is also the drug of choice for intentional overdose, which is extra tragic as it is good at killing you – it causes the death from liver failure of between 90 and 150 people a year.

Holby's consultant surgeon has had five wives, a gambling addiction and lost a son to heroin overdose.

The delay can cause users who do not know they have taken a different variety of ecstasy to overdose because they think their first pills have not worked.

This is worth remembering today, when political correctness is usually diagnosed as a leftwing complaint – an overdose of right-on trendiness causing spontaneous outbreaks of Winterval and "trigger warnings".

What we said: "Through stories that are partly his own – the centrepiece, Little Colored Balloons, ends with Murry's overdose ('I took an ambulance ride – they said I should've died, right there on 16th and Mission') – Murry invests the South with a necromantic realism, where decay is the one constant, but he somehow avoids self-pity or lachrymosity.

Though he had always promised to commit suicide during a show, a defeated Allin finally walked off stage in Manhattan in June 1993, sporting just soiled briefs, his body smeared with blood and droppings, and into a fatal heroin overdose.

In his suicide note he wrote that his overdose was his "gift to the future".

But then I started hearing that, health-wise, it might be dangerous; that you can overdose on alone.