Current clinical aspects of drug-facilitated sexual assaults in sexually abused victims examined in a forensic emergency unit

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 218-224

  Marc, Bernard ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Compiegne   (France)

Author keywords

Crime laboratory; Drug facilitated; Emergency; Forensic medicine; Sexual assault; Toxicology; Urine analysis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BROMAZEPAM; CLONAZEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; HYPNOTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; KETAMINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; TETRAZEPAM; TRANQUILIZER; ZALEPLON; ZOLPIDEM; ZOPICLONE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ASSAULT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG INTOXICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INFECTION RISK; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; SEDATION; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VICTIM;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; BENZODIAZEPINES; CRIME VICTIMS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; RAPE; SEX OFFENSES;

EID: 42049098421     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FTD.0b013e31816b9273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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