Citation

Nicolakis J, Gmeiner G, Reiter C, Seltenhammer MH. Int. J. Legal Med. 2020; 134(6): 2121-2132.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00414-020-02412-y

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The primary objective of this study was to investigate whether the fatalities of opioid abuse are not only related to respiratory depression but also as a result of other side effects such as emesis, delayed gastric emptying, a reduction of the cough reflex, and impaired consciousness leading to the aspiration of gastric contents, a finding regularly observed in drug-related deaths.

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