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Meanings of overdose in English

To take an excessive dose of a substance.

Usage of overdose in English
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Conclusion: HIV infection was associated with a higher risk of overdose mortality.
Pubmed
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If you're not aware of New Zealand's overdose problem, you're not alone.
Radio NZ
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Problems were rare and typically followed an accidental overdose, the makers said.
Reuters
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Rearings on psoas from eight heroin overdose victims confirmed previous experimental results.
Pubmed
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Conclusion: Patients with a NFOO and OUD are vulnerable to another overdose.
Pubmed
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Objective: To develop an algorithm to predict overdose using routinely-collected healthcare databases.
Pubmed
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Ms Treadwell died as a result of an overdose of the barbiturate.
Radio NZ
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Will audiences overdose with the amount of info given in each episode?
Wired
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Objective: To examine the association between opioid dose variability and opioid overdose.
Pubmed
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Opioid withdrawal or overdose was not observed among subjects in this study.
Pubmed
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It's heavily addictive, and a hundred milligrams isn't far from overdose territory.
Pandemonium
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Yet, by the following day, he had died from a morphine overdose.
The Irish Times
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When you use it, you don't suddenly do too much and overdose.
Mass casualties: a young medic's true story of death, deception,...
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I anticipated my eventual overdose like a zealot looking forward to Armageddon.
The Vital Abyss
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Prince died at age 57 of an overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.
Reuters
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Prince died, reportedly of an accidental overdose of fentanyl at age 57.
Ebony
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