A review of psychoactive drug-involved deaths in nine major United States cities

The International Journal of the Addictions
L A GottschalkH Birch

Abstract

Detailed psychosocial and biomedical data were collected in 2,000 psychoactive drug-involved deaths occurring from 1972 through 1974 in nine large cities in the United States. The cases were selected representatively by the medical examiners or coroners in each city. Also, proficiency studies were carried out of the toxicological laboratories associated with these nine cooperating data collection centers. There were striking intercity psychosocial and biomedical differences in these psychoactive drug-involved deaths. These differences were based not simply in demographic regional population differences but also on the kinds of psychoactive drugs used as well as the role of the drug in contributing to death and whether the death was a result of an accident, suicide, homicide, or unknown intent. Also, a lack of uniformity was demonstrated in the quality control of the toxicological laboratories associated with the offices of these nine medical examiners or coroners, which suggests varying degrees of accuracy in resulting medicolegal diagnoses. Hence national programs of drug abuse deterrence or prevention and treatment should deal specifically with the variety of psychoactive drug-involved deaths occurring in different urban area...Continue Reading

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