Kaa E
Aarhus Universitet, Retsmedieinsk Institut.
Ugeskr Laeger. 1990 Apr 9;152(15):1080-3.
A total of 229 deaths among drug addicts (194 men and 35 women) examined of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Aarhus during the period 1981-1988 is described. In 178 deaths, the cause of death was poisoning with a drug or illegal narcotic. Alcohol was involved in nearly half of these deaths and was, in addition, the cause of death in 4% of the cases. Heroin or morphine were the causes of death in one third of the cases while detropropoxyphene, methadone and ketobemidone were responsible for approximately half of the deaths. Until 1986, dextropropoxyphene was the dominating drug whereas the number of methadone deaths was considerably greater in the latter half of the period investigated than in the first half. Amphetamine alone was rarely the cause of death but the drug was seen in an increasing number of deaths in recent years. Thus, amphetamine was found in one third of the deaths in 1988.
本文描述了1981年至1988年期间，奥胡斯大学法医学研究所对229名吸毒者（194名男性和35名女性）进行尸检后的死亡情况。在178例死亡案例中，死因是药物或非法麻醉品中毒。近一半的此类死亡案例涉及酒精，此外，酒精还是4%的案例的死因。三分之一的案例中，海洛因或吗啡是死因，而右丙氧芬、美沙酮和凯托米酮导致了约一半的死亡。直到1986年，右丙氧芬一直是主要涉事药物，而在所调查时期的后半段，美沙酮致死案例数量比前半段大幅增加。单独使用苯丙胺很少导致死亡，但近年来在越来越多的死亡案例中发现了这种药物。因此，在1988年三分之一的死亡案例中发现了苯丙胺。
