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In other words, many of the deaths classified as overdoses in recent years may in fact have been caused by something else, but were called overdoses simply because the decedent had what appeared to be an abnormal amount of opioids in his system.

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There is an antidote that can reverse opioid overdoses, which is safe and effective and has been quietly working miracles around the country in cities where health activists and city health departments have been distributing it to drug users, usually through needle exchange programs.

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Nowhere near half of American teens, after all, are dying of heroin overdoses.

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What they typically say happens is something known as an exaggerated response if someone overdoses, meaning that if it was supposed to make them a little sleepy, it will make them very sleepy; if it was supposed to make them a little bit jittery, it will make them very jittery.

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It’s certainly a lesser threat to this country’s well-being than are, for one example, Aspirin overdoses.

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Another possible reason for the rise is a growing trend among young people to rely on extreme measures such as overdoses and wrist cutting to communicate their anger and distress, say mental health experts.

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The overdoses, the sexually transmitted diseases, the senseless deaths.

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Late last year, the American Association of Poison Control Centers began tracking energy drink overdoses and side effects.

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More than 30,000 addicts die of heroin overdoses each year in Russia alone.

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But as provocatively titled as "The Killing of Anna Nicole Smith" is, Seidlin offers no evidence either death was anything more than the accidental drug overdoses they were deemed.

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