title: [What should a physician do facing drug facilitated crimes?].
abstract: Chemical submission is the administration, for criminal purposes, of psychoactive substances to an individual without their knowledge. It is clear that general practitioners remain helpless against such a phenomenon. Most of the time, diagnosis is negatively affected by delayed management, due to omitted diagnosis or inappropriate samples. The purpose of our paper is therefore to provide a few simple recommendations. A victim suspecting of being drugged without knowing should be adequately interviewed, examined and informed about the possibility of pressing charges. A quick referral to an emergency unit or a forensic medicine unit is necessary to collect biological samples for toxicological testing as promptly as possible. In the event of a prosecution, these samples will be submitted for toxicological analysis, a critical step in identifying the psychoactive substance used.
authors: Unité médico-judiciaire, Hôtel-Dieu, faculté Paris-Descartes, université Paris-V, 75181 Paris Cedex 4. isabelle.sec@htd.aphp.fr
authors: Isabelle
authors: I
authors: Sec
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003068:Coercion; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D057237:Criminals; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000379:methods*