@article{ref1,
title="Severe meprobamate intoxication: In death as in life?",
journal="Journal (Canadian Society of Forensic Science)",
year="1996",
author="Jones, G. R. and Larue, L. E.",
volume="29",
number="2",
pages="73-76",
abstract="An unusual case is presented where a toxicological investigation conducted in one laboratory was important for the proper interpretation of postmortem toxicology findings in the same person, in a different laboratory, seven months later. The first incident, a minor motor vehicle accident, involved a severe meprobamate intoxication in which the person's blood concentration was 98 mg/L. In the second incident, a fatal house fire, the postmortem blood meprobamate concentration was 96 mg/L. Knowledge of the first toxicological investigation and circumstances surrounding the matter aided interpretation of the postmortem toxicology findings: that the very high blood meprobamate concentrations probably resulted from chronic abuse of the drug and not from a suicidal overdose.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0008-5030",
doi="10.1080/00085030.1996.10757049",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00085030.1996.10757049"
}