A man who took vitamin D supplements for nine months died from an overdose. The packaging of this substance did not clearly indicate the dangers of excessive vitamin D consumption, Insider reports. David Mitchener, an 89-year-old retired British businessman, was hospitalized...
Sacramento City Unified is delivering Narcan, a drug that can eliminate opioid overdoses, to county campuses as fentanyl overdoses have skyrocketed, KCRA reports. District leaders stressed that narcan will only be available in case of emergency and will be kept by staff.…
August 18 morning in Boystown near noisy Belmont Avenue in Chicago, under brick arches, a passerby found the bodies of two men and one woman without signs of life, according to CWBC Chicago. Two men were pronounced dead at the scene. Chicago Fire Department paramedics...
A British man overdosed on vitamin D and nearly died. This is a caution to people who are considering adding nutritional supplements to their lives, CNN reports. After a visit to a private nutritionist, the man began taking more than 20 over-the-counter supplements daily, ...
The powerful drug, a synthetic opioid called ISO, can be deadly even if touched or inhaled, according to Fox5NY. According to the doctor, the dangerous drug is hitting the streets at an alarming rate. The drug is called ISO and health experts say it…
Tom Mansfield, 29, bought a 100g sachet of caffeine powder from Blackburn Distributions, a British sports supplement company, INSIDER reports. The recommended dose of caffeine powder, which gym goers often use to boost performance, was between 60mg and 300mg.…
Authorities said the 13-year-old, who was hospitalized Jan. 13 after apparent exposure to fentanyl at a Connecticut high school, died Jan. 15, NBC reported. Hartford police pointed to an accidental "proximity" and inadvertent "contact" with the teen's synthetic opioid fentanyl, and...
In the United States, doctors are warning of cases of hospitalization due to poisoning with the drug Imodium. By taking a remedy for indigestion in a dosage hundreds of times higher than recommended, people achieve drug intoxication, doctors say. The active ingredient in Imodium and similar medications is loperamide, an opioid...
The 18-year-old resident of Eldorado Hills, California has been the seventh victim of heavy pain relievers in Sacramento County since March 24. In total, at least 30 people ended up in hospitals with suspected overdose. Reportedly, the cause was the drug fentanyl contained in painkillers, ...