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
Poppy Intoxication in Infants and Children: Hazards of a Folk Remedy.
Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP 2021 May;30;576-581 — 2021 May — 576-581
Death in a legal poppy field in Spain.
Forensic science international 2016 Aug;265;34-40 — 2016 Aug — 34-40
Fatal intoxications in Denmark following intake of morphine from opium poppies.
Zeitschrift fur Rechtsmedizin. Journal of legal medicine 1988;101;197-204 — 1988 — 197-204