title: [Fatalities related to morphine and heroin administration].
abstract: Between 1978 and 1989 403 fatal cases (72% male; 28% female) due to morphine and/or heroin have been investigated in the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the Free University in Berlin (West). These are about 50% of all forensic drug-autopsies in Berlin (West). All cases, in which combinations of drugs and medicaments and/or drugs and alcohol could be found, are included. In 29 cases other causes of death have been found besides morphin-/heroin-concentrations. Not included are fatalities with known drug abuse, but without evidence of morphin-/heroin-concentrations. This paper presents the methods of toxicological analysing and the large variance in lung and urine results.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Freien Universität Berlin.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiese
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Klug
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D062787:Drug Overdose / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000473:pathology; D003932:Heroin / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009020:Morphine / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000506:poisoning*
chemical_list: D003932:Heroin; D009020:Morphine
vernacular_title: Todesfälle im Zusammenhang mit Morphin- bzw. Heroineinnahmen.