Characteristics, circumstances and toxicology of sudden or unnatural deaths involving very high-range alcohol concentrations

Addiction

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1411-1417

  Darke, Shane ^a   Duflou, Johan ^a,b   Torok, Michelle ^a   Prolov, Tatiania ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c New South Wales Nurses' Association   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Mortality; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SUDDEN DEATH; TOXICOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ALCOHOL; MORTALITY; TOXICOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84880315631     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.12191     Document Type: Article

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