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Most patients were receiving a substantial overdose of an extremely costly preparation.
Former sitcom child actress Dana Plato, 34, died last weekend of what is being described as an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, one day after declaring on Howard Stern's radio show that she had been sober for a decade.
The inclusion criteria were GCS ≤ 9, and specific medical diagnoses as follows: hypoxic or ischaemic injury; focal cerebral injury; general cerebral injury; metabolic or septic encephalopathy; and drug-induced coma or toxic injury, including drug overdose and coma persisting 24 h after discontinuation of toxic substances.
A piece tells the incredible life story of Carlos Mavroleon, the Eton and Harvard educated son of a Greek tycoon who converted to Islam, joined the mujahideen, became a free-lance TV war correspondent, was arrested by the Pakistani police while trying to sneak into Osama Bin Laden's terrorist camps after the U.S. bombing, and died mysteriously of a heroin overdose days later.
Bobby Jr. introduced mescaline to his 13-year-old brother David, who eventually died of a drug overdose.