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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

Hobbs JM, DeRienz RT, Baker DD, Shuttleworth MR, Pandey M

Case Report: Fatal Intoxication by the Novel Cathinone 4-fluoro-3-methyl-?-PVP.

Journal of analytical toxicology 2022 Jan 11;; — 2022 Jan 11

Yamagishi I, Minakata K, Nozawa H, Hasegawa K, Suzuki M, Kitamoto T, Suzuki O, Watanabe K

A case of intoxication with a mixture of synthetic cannabinoids EAM-2201, AB-PINACA and AB-FUBINACA, and a synthetic cathinone ?-PVP.

Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 2018 Nov;35;44-49 — 2018 Nov — 44-49

Sykutera M, Cychowska M, Bloch-Boguslawska E

A Fatal Case of Pentedrone and ?-Pyrrolidinovalerophenone Poisoning.

Journal of analytical toxicology 2015 May;39;324-9 — 2015 May — 324-9

Eiden C, Mathieu O, Cathala P, Debruyne D, Baccino E, Petit P, Peyriere H

Toxicity and death following recreational use of 2-pyrrolidino valerophenone.

Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2013 Nov;51;899-903 — 2013 Nov — 899-903

Murphy CM, Dulaney AR, Beuhler MC, Kacinko S

"Bath salts" and "plant food" products: the experience of one regional US poison center.

Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology 2013 Mar;9;42-8 — 2013 Mar — 42-8