Cocaine availability has been increasing in Spain in the past few years. A review of all the
toxicological analyses carried out at the Madrid Department of the Instituto Nacional de …

Drug testing for cocaine use is done in many situations, including drug treatment,
employment screening and investigations of the criminal justice system (Preston et al …

METHOD The jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Dade County Medical Examiner Department
(MDCMED) encompasses all of Dade County and includes the city of Miami and other …

A case is presented of a 26-year-old female who died as a result of cocaine intoxication. A
blood cocaine concentration of 330 mg/l, about 1.5 times greater than the highest …

A three-year review of toxicology data from medical examiner autopsies in Pima County,
Arizona, has demonstrated that cocaine has rapidly become a leading substance of abuse …

In recent years there has been an increase interest in cocaine-related death reflecting the
rising trend in cocaine use in Europe. Nevertheless is still now very difficult to attribute a …

This study examined cocaine and benzoylecgonine concentrations in 100 consecutive
deaths where either compound was identified in blood or urine specimens to determine …

This article describes 15 cocaine associated deaths in Utah in a 3 ½-month period in early
1984, compared to 6 cocaine associated deaths for all of 1983. Brief case histories of the 15 …

The HPLC determinations of cocaine and its main metabolites are critically reviewed with
special attention to the matrices analysed. A comparison of the different extraction methods …

Two deaths due to cocaine are described. The first is the result of an intravenous injection of
the drug. The second death resulted when, in an attempt to smuggle a large amount of the …