Sudden death from acute cocaine intoxication in Virginia in 1988
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (12) , 1667-1669
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.12.1667
Abstract
A review of medical examiners'' autopsy records revealed that in 1988, 33 residents of Virginia died of acute cocaine intoxication. The subjects were 19 to 45 years old; most were men, used cocaine intravenously, and used other toxic substances with the lethal dose of cocaine.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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