Definition of "overdoses" []

• Plural form of overdose. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdose. (verb)

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• "In other words, many of the deaths classified as overdoses in recent years may in fact have been caused by something else, but were called overdoses simply because the decedent had what appeared to be an abnormal amount of opioids in his system."
• "There is an antidote that can reverse opioid overdoses, which is safe and effective and has been quietly working miracles around the country in cities where health activists and city health departments have been distributing it to drug users, usually through needle exchange programs."
• "Nowhere near half of American teens, after all, are dying of heroin overdoses."