The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website
Can be intentional, deliberate, inadvertent, by mistake, or by proxy. Sudden or delayed. See also under XI r/s. Death may occur from overdose, poisoning, intoxication, asphyxia, arrhythmia or CPA. Acute coronary event or be qualified as 'sudden cardiac death'. Laboratory evaluation and forensic measurements of drug(s) and substance(s) of interest on blood or tissue samples at/from autopsy is indicated in any unexplained death (PMID 24365689). See also under XIr. Fatal blood and tissue concentrations of 200+ drugs on PMID 15172079
Publications
Methamphetamine-related cardiovascular diseases.
ESC heart failure 2020 Jan 17;; — 2020 Jan 17
Death by 'ice': fatal methamphetamine intoxication of a body packer case detected by postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) and validated by autopsy.
Forensic science, medicine, and pathology 2013 Mar;9;82-7 — 2013 Mar — 82-7
Death from accidental poisoning of methamphetamine by leaking into alimentary tract in drug traffic: a case report.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 2009 Apr;11 Suppl 1;S491-3 — 2009 Apr — S491-3
Methamphetamine body packer: acute poisoning death due to massive leaking of methamphetamine.
Journal of forensic sciences 2007 Sep;52;1219-22 — 2007 Sep — 1219-22
Methamphetamine-related sudden death with a concentration which was of a 'toxic level'.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 2006 May;8;150-5 — 2006 May — 150-5