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Recent Examples of overdose
Advertisement Drug use and drug overdoses have been persistent problems inside the jails.
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Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
Hoover, known as TJ, was 33 years old and had been hospitalized after an overdose.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
Methadone has been shown to be better at reducing cravings but comes with a higher risk of overdose (more about this later).9
Side Effects of Suboxone vs. Methadone
Both Suboxone and methadone come with side effects ranging from mild to life-threatening.
—Patricia Weiser, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 25 Oct. 2024
Some signs suggest overdose deaths are finally starting to decline.
—Simar Bajaj, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
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Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
Hoover, known as TJ, was 33 years old and had been hospitalized after an overdose.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
Methadone has been shown to be better at reducing cravings but comes with a higher risk of overdose (more about this later).9
Side Effects of Suboxone vs. Methadone
Both Suboxone and methadone come with side effects ranging from mild to life-threatening.
—Patricia Weiser, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 25 Oct. 2024
Some signs suggest overdose deaths are finally starting to decline.
—Simar Bajaj, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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Plains All American Pipeline has a working capital surplus of $33 million and approximately $3.3 billion of liquidity available as of September 30, 2024.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Newsom, first elected in 2018, temporarily increased the incentive by $90 million when the state enjoyed a large pandemic-era surplus in 2021.Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Oct. 2024
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Just an overdue recalibration of what constitutes luxury versus excess; omakase counters are thriving, after all.Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2024
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The ’80s excess is on point, from maximalist cocktail attire to the mile-high-club encounter in the Concorde bathroom that opens the series.Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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The rehearsed, synchronized closer was slight overkill, no?Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 19 July 2024
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Nordlinger also notes an important instance of overkill.Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2012
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Acknowledge your accomplishments—and prepare for the overflow of blessings during this era of your life.Essence, Essence, 1 Nov. 2024
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Integer Overflow Sanitizer does the same as above but in relation to integers, or numbers, being too large or too small and enabling an overflow exploit.Davey Winder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Beneath a surfeit of chandeliers stands a table laden with items of celebratory excess.Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
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Frankenweenie is Burton’s geeky salute to old Frankenstein flicks, but the wit of the homage can’t always overcome the director’s habitual inability to tell stories without a surfeit of strained gags and indifferent plotting.Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
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With more assets sold, prices will fall amid an oversupply of deals, the bid-ask spread will narrow to a market-clearing level, and a new valuation equilibrium will be reached.Control Risks, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Dealers say the diverging paths of the various generations has led to an oversupply of seven- and eight-figure Impressionist and Abstract works.Robert Frank, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
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The amplitudes take the form of fractions, with a numerator above a denominator.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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This suggests that our brain associates slower, more regular changes in amplitude with music and faster, irregular changes with speech.Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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