Edland J F
J Forensic Sci. 1982 Oct;27(4):942-3.
Death from the misuse of alcohol and barbiturates is frequently encountered in most medical examiner/coroner offices. The cause of death is often quite apparent from the pathological and toxicological findings; however, the manner of death often gives the examining official some difficulty. The usual dilemma is to unravel whether the dead individual intentionally took the lethal combination in order to cause his/her own death or whether the combination was unintentionally ingested without awareness of the potentially lethal combination. The manner of death in these cases is either suicidal, accidental, or undetermined. A case is presented in which alcohol and barbiturates are the causes of death, but the manner of death is somewhat unusual in that it was administered by a second party with premeditation, deliberation, and intent to kill.
在大多数法医/验尸官办公室，因滥用酒精和巴比妥类药物导致的死亡案例屡见不鲜。从病理学和毒理学检查结果来看，死因往往相当明显；然而，死亡方式常常给检查人员带来一些难题。常见的困境在于，要弄清楚死者是有意服用致命组合药物以自杀，还是在未意识到该组合有潜在致命性的情况下意外摄入。这些案例的死亡方式要么是自杀、要么是意外、要么无法确定。本文呈现了这样一个案例，其中酒精和巴比妥类药物是死因，但死亡方式有些不同寻常，因为是由第三方有预谋、蓄意且意图谋杀而实施的。
