Professional rugby league player, 27, died of accidental drug overdose

A professional rugby league player died of an accidental drug overdose after taking too much medication for sporting injuries, an inquest has heard. Jordan Cox, 27, took pain relief medication for chronic back pain but was found dead by his grandmother in the early hours of April 30 last year. Mr Cox played in the … Read more

Naomi Watts admits she’s still struggling with emotions after father’s death from heroin overdose

Naomi Watts admits she’s still ‘sorting out’ her emotional struggles at age 52 – after losing her father to a heroin overdose when she was just seven By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:45 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 01:26 GMT, 6 January 2021 Naomi Watts has recalled the agony of losing … Read more

Vaccine overdose puts German care workers in hospital

Covid vaccine OVERDOSE puts eight care home workers in hospital in northern Germany Eight care home workers were given overdose five times the recommended dose Four went to hospital for observation after they developed flu-like symptoms  The incident comes as Germany began rolling out its vaccination campaign  By Reuters Published: 15:44 GMT, 28 December 2020 | … Read more

Drug overdose deaths have risen by 20% in the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic, new CDC data show

Drug overdose deaths have spiked in the U.S. due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic, a new advisory finds. More than 81,000 fatalities occurred in the 12-month period ending in May 2020, a nearly 20 percent rise from the 12-month period ending in June 2019, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and … Read more

Rapper who filmed Holby City actor’s daughter as she died of overdose grins in Instagram picture

A rapper who was jailed after filming the daughter of a Holby City actor dying from a party drugs overdose has been pictured grinning in his first Instagram picture after being released from jail.   Drug dealer Ceon Broughton, 31, supplied John Michie’s daughter Louella Fletcher-Michie with the hallucinogenic 2-CP at Bestival in Dorset in 2017. … Read more

Inquest hears girl, 11, was the second patient to overdose of anti-seizure drug at Surrey hospital

A baby girl was the second patient to receive a fatal overdose of the same drug at a Surrey hospital within six months, an inquest has heard. Eleven-month-old Sophie Burgess was rushed by ambulance to St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey after suffering a seizure on June 16 2016, but died after being given the drug … Read more

Jeremy Kyle ‘may have caused death’ of guest who took drug overdose

Jeremy Kyle will be called to give evidence into the apparent suicide of a guest on his show who died days after failing a lie detector test, a pre-inquest hearing has heard. Coroner Jason Pegg said it would be ‘ludicrous’ if Kyle was not called in person at the full inquest into the death of … Read more

Jeremy Kyle ‘may have caused death’ of guest who took drug overdose a week after taking lie detector

Jeremy Kyle ‘may have caused the death’ of one of the guests on his TV show, a coroner has said. Hampshire Coroner Jason Pegg said he had decided to make the presenter an ‘interested person’ under the coroner’s rules in the case of Steve Dymond. Mr Dymond, 63, from Hampshire, died in a suspected suicide … Read more

Doctor walks free after killing father-of-four, 56, with lethal overdose of anaesthetic

Doctor walks free after killing father-of-four, 56, with lethal overdose of anaesthetic Christopher Hales, 56, went to Wythenshawe Hospital with a collapsed lung  Doctor Shahid Khan, 63, gave him two anaesthetic drugs at maximum doses ‘Disastrous’ execution put Mr Hales into cardiac arrest and could not be revived His pled guilty to gross negligence manslaughter at … Read more

‘Middle class’ beautician, 32, died of overdose after she ‘escaped being trafficked’ 

A beautician died of an overdose after her ‘middle-class’ upbringing spiralled into a murky underworld when she began abusing drugs and alcohol.  The family of Emma Sheref told a inquest how she had been sucked into drug addiction and suffered PTSD after a boyfriend tried to sell her to drug dealers to pay off debts.   The … Read more