Obviously it's a tragedy for anyone to
die of alcohol or drug addiction.
Not exact matches
And a large 2013 study found that breastfeeding babies younger than 3 months who bed - shared with adults were five times more likely to
die of SIDS, even when their parents were not using tobacco,
alcohol,
or drugs.
In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal
alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence
of prenatal
drug use had a postneonatal mortality
of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none
of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality
of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never
die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.
Please note that research has shown that babies who sleep in the same bed as their parents are more likely to
die from SIDS if either parent smokes, takes
drugs or consumes large quantities
of alcohol.
Subsequently, by virtue
of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that
dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding
or not, safely care for,
or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy
of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light
of the fact that when careful and complete examination
of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 %
of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence
of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use
of alcohol and /
or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations
of bedsharing parents that border on charges
of being neglectful and /
or abusive.
In a recent study, nearly half
of all veterans who
died from
drug overdoses while prescribed opioids for pain were also receiving benzodiazepines,
or benzos, which are common medications for the treatment
of anxiety, insomnia and
alcohol withdrawal.
He has successfully handled cases involving brain injury, plane crashes, stock fraud, truck wrecks, deadly exposure to negligently manufactured
drugs, intoxicated
or drug impaired drivers who injure innocent citizens, negligent road construction and maintenance, negligent design
or manufacture
of machines, explosions and home fires, violation
of DOT regulations regarding 18 wheelers, severe burns and scars, negligent installation
of hot water heaters, wrongful denial
of claims by insurance companies, sale
of alcohol to minors by convenience stores, defective residential
or commercial construction, heart attacks at work from overexertion, defective airbags, wrecks caused by trucks that exceeded size and weight limits, nursing home abuse, product liability, unrelenting pain from on - the - job injuries, and numerous other cases where the injuries were so severe that the person
died or became totally disabled.
As an example, they could not shell out if you
die because
of drug or alcohol abuse, and also you normally have to pay for extra to become covered if you be a part
of risky sports.
Teenagers who are simply experimenting with
alcohol or drugs can
die or suffer severe injuries,
or acquire HIV
or other infections,
or become pregnant due to engaging in risky behaviors while under the influence
of the substance.