Aim: To determine whether there has been an increase in deaths by overdose in Italy, as
elsewhere in the Western world, over the past fifteen years. Method: This study's conclusions …

Based on criminological experiences and pathomorphological, serological and toxicological
studies of more than 300 fatalities, an overview is given of drugs, their intravenous abuse …

In recent years, there has been an increase in cocaine-related deaths at the Department of
Legal Medicine and Public Health of Pavia, probably reflecting the rising trend in cocaine …

Abstract 'Street'samples of heroin both in solution and in solid form were subjected to
analysis by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a view to determining the …

Three laboratories present a harmonised system for the retrospective comparison of south
west Asian heroin. It consists of an improved gas chromatographic (GC) profiling method …

Because of the increase in heroin trafficking in France, it was decided that data on samples
of heroin seized in the country would be filed in a computer in the Interregional Forensic …

The retrospective analysis determines changes between the deaths caused by illegal drugs
in East Germany between 1995 and 2004 with specific regard to the number and manner of …

Over a 10-year period (1998–2007) all deaths in Sweden classified by forensic pathologists
as fatal drug poisonings (N= 6894) were retrieved from a toxicology database (TOXBASE) …

Postmortem samples from 14 cases of suspected heroin overdose were subjected to a
preliminary systematic toxicological analysis in order to highlight the presence of unknown …