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Jack Gramenz

One Aussie dying each month in 'unforgiving' bathrooms

The combination of a hot bath with alcohol can be deadly, researchers found. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Slippery, hard-surfaced bathrooms are not safe places to be using drugs or drinking, Australian researchers investigating bathtub drownings say.

An analysis from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre of 195 adults who died in a bathtub or hot tub between 2015 and 2024 found drugs or alcohol contributed to the majority of deaths.

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