• Women who take medicine to try to end a pregnancy are misusing the medicine, and may poison themselves
• Poisoning accidents can occur when safety warnings are ignored and chemicals are used in the wrong way. For example, there is usually a warning on a bleach container that bleach should not be mixed with any other cleaner. If people ignore the warning and use bleach with another household cleaner, they may be poisoned by the gases emitted.
• Another example of misuse of a product is when insecticides that are meant to be used on plants or buildings are used to kill insects living on people, in their hair or on their bodies.
• Sometimes people poison themselves by misusing medicines. They may take more than the doctor prescribed because they think, wrongly, that a larger dose will make them better more quickly.
• Taking someone else’s medicine is also a kind of misuse. People who take someone else’s medicine may be harmed if they take the wrong dose or take a medicine that is not meant for treating their condition.
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