Deliberate Self-Poisoning Presenting to an Emergency Medicine Network in South-East Melbourne: A Descriptive Study

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Category of “miscellaneous poisoning substances.”

(i)     Antidiabetic medications (both oral and injectable)

(ii)      Antihypertensive agents

(iii)    Carbon monoxide

(iv)     Household cleaning agents

(v)      Weed killers, pesticides and head lice solutions

(vi)     Fuels: petrol and kerosene

(vii)   Personal and animal grooming products

(viii) Any type of medications available in the household; few examples are natural sleeping

  pills, multi vitamin tablets, Betadine

(ix)    Medications from the country of birth for the Non-Australia born populations

(x)     Alcohol