Fatal Excited Delirium Following Cocaine Use: Epidemiologic Findings Provide New Evidence for Mechanisms of Cocaine Toxicity
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by ASTM International in Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Vol. 42 (1) , 25-31
- https://doi.org/10.1520/jfs14064j
Abstract
We describe an outbreak of deaths from cocaine-induced excited delirium (EDDs) in Dade County, Florida between 1979 and 1990. From a registry of all cocaine-related deaths in Dade County, Florida, from 1969–1990, 58 EDDs were compared with 125 victims ofKeywords
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