Evaluation of the addiction history of a dead woman after exhumation and sectional hair testing

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-77

  Tsatsakis, Aristidis M ^a   Tzatzarakis, Manolis N ^a   Psaroulis, Dimitris ^b   Levkidis, Christos ^c   Michalodimitrakis, Manolis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c MINISTRY OF JUSTICE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Addiction history; Exhumed hair; Morphine hair profile

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; CANNABIS; DIAMORPHINE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE 6 ACETATE; OPIATE;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; TOXICOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS;

EID: 0035105747     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-200103000-00015     Document Type: Article

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