David Kennedy died of a drug overdose and Michael Kennedy was killed in a skiing accident.
She died, some speculate from a drug overdose, in 1954 at the age of 47.
If the coma is the result of drug overdose, doctors will give medications to treat the condition.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says West Virginia has the second-highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the nation.
Police announced shortly thereafter that they were investigating a possible drug overdose.
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During her hospitalization, Abu Rahma received an unusual mix of drugs that is usually only administered to treat poisoning, drug overdose or leukemia.
Heirs of Brooklyn rapper Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, cofounder of Wu-Tang Clan, are still tussling over his estate three years after the troubled rhyme-master died of a drug overdose.
According to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, 85% of attempted suicides using guns are fatal, compared to only 2% of attempts by a far more common method, drug overdose.
Dr David Gunnell and colleagues from Bristol University point out that the method of suicide favoured by women - drug overdose - has become less lethal owing to the replacement of barbiturates by the less toxic benzodiazepines in the 1980s.
They received between three and five such patients a year, he estimated, mostly avalanche victims (Klagenfurt is surrounded by the Alps), some of them drowning victims, and a few of them people attempting suicide by taking a drug overdose and then wandering out into the snowy forests to fall unconscious.
In 2001, New Mexico started distributing Narcan, a drug used to reverse the effects of overdose, and bolstered the program in 2007 by giving out Narcan nasal spray instead of needles.
However, the Prison Service, in which healthcare is overseen by the South-Eastern Trust, has distributed 35 packs of the drug to prisoners judged to be at risk of overdose on release.
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Katri Abel-Ollo, an analyst for the Estonian Drug Monitoring Centre, says the Estonian government still has "no specific strategy" for dealing with the overdose issue.
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