Medicolegal Examination of Drug-Induced Death |
Kim, Sang Chul |
The Institute of Legal Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea |
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Abstract |
Current ease of drug acquisition and people's overt drug-oriented behavior tend to increase drug- induced death.
To describe a death as drug-induced one, it is necessary that autopsy and toxicological findings should support it. But the detectin of a drug not always mean it drug-induced death.
Autopsy and toxicological findings should be interpreted in the light of antecedent events, medical and social histories and thorough scene investigations. |
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