An announced suicide with ecstasy

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-43

  Libiseller, Kathrin ^a   Pavlic, Marion ^a   Grubwieser, Petra ^a   Rabl, Walter ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ecstasy; MDEA; MDMA; Overdose; Suicide

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYETHYLAMPHETAMINE; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BILE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INGESTION; MALE; PILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CONTENT; SUICIDE; TABLET; TOXICOLOGY; URINALYSIS;

3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; ADULT; AUSTRIA; AUTOPSY; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; N-METHYL-3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; OVERDOSE; SUICIDE;

EID: 33845744338     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-005-0039-9     Document Type: Article

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