TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - Drug fatalities from the forensic medicine viewpoint. 10 years experiences of the Vienna Institute of Forensic Medicine
JO  - Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift
A1  - Risser, D.
A1  - Bönsch, A.
A1  - Schneider, Birke
A1  - Vycudilik, W.
A1  - Bauer, G.
SP  - 677
EP  - 680
VL  - 106
IS  - 21
N2  - The problem of illicit drug abuse has of course not spared Austria. In fact, considering only the increase in the official figures on drug-related deaths over the past few years, this problem has dramatically worsened in Austria. Drug-related deaths represent the most serious consequence of substance abuse, but according to the Pompidou Group classification such deaths are only one of eight indicators in assessing the extent of drug abuse in a community. We analyzed reports on all postmortems classified as drug-related deaths according to the official definition of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs undertaken at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Vienna between 1984 and 1993. The annual number of drug-related deaths increased nearly ten-fold during the study period. In about a third of the cases accidental single substance overdosage (of mainly a morphine-containing drug) was the cause of death. In the majority of the corpses more than one drug, including alcohol, was detected. During the past 10 years there was an evident trend towards a multisubstance abuse pattern. Since the plateau reached in 1988, the incidence of HIV-1 infection among decreased drug injectors has decreased.<p /> <p>Language: de</p> 
LA  - de
SN  - 0043-5325
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -