An anorexia sufferer, Melissa Tatchell, 28 year old weighted only 29kg. She had mistakenly taken the wrong dose of painkiller Oxycontin and in her blood, there are lethal levels of painkiller components.
In October 2007, Melissa Tatchell fall and injured her ankle and leg. She tried multiple painkiller prescriptions to relieve her pain. Firstly, she had been prescribed 40mg tablets of Oxycontin and then 80mg tablets.
But, the hospital staff found that she had been mistakenly consuming the 80mg tablets twice a day. She became drowsy, suffering abdominal pain and unable to speak or call people.
On 8 of October 2007, she was found unconsciousness and unresponsive.
Comment:
Drugs bring harm if we use them excessively. A control amount of drugs are helpful and useful to us, but if we overdose them, they can cause fatal. Therefore, we need to be careful when taking medicine or prescription drugs and follow the medicinal instruction closely.
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