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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1987;11(2):61-64.
Medicolegal Examination of Drug-Induced Death
Kim, Sang Chul
The Institute of Legal Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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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