Prevalence of cannabinoids in urine samples from forensic autopsies
| Autor: | Dragsholt C, Kristensen Ib, Hansen Ac |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Marijuana Abuse Adolescent Substance-Related Disorders media_common.quotation_subject Denmark Urine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Age Distribution Cause of Death mental disorders medicine Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Young adult Psychiatry media_common Aged biology business.industry Cannabinoids Health Policy Addiction Cannabis use Middle Aged biology.organism_classification 030227 psychiatry Forensic science Issues ethics and legal aspects Drug addict Female Cannabis Autopsy business Law |
| Zdroj: | Medicine, science, and the law. 39(3) |
| ISSN: | 0025-8024 |
| Popis: | Urine samples from 393 forensic autopsies were tested for the presence of cannabinoids by means of the radio-immunoassay test kit from DPC, Los Angeles. Fifteen per cent were found positive, mainly men and young adults. Use of cannabis was found to be closely related to drug addiction, and thus in cannabis-positive drug addicts, non-natural manners and causes of death dominate. In non-addicts the prevalence of cannabis use was 7.5%, and in non-addicted cannabis users, manners and causes of death were not very different from those found in cannabis-negatives. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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