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Between 1978 and 1992 1435 autopsies were performed at the Milan University Institute of Forensic Medicine; samples of biological fluids and viscera were collected during the postmortem examination and chemical and toxicological tests were carried out; once the presence of morphine was determined, it was then dosed via the radioimmunoassay (RIA). None of the cases had been subjected to any pharmacological therapy.
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Caligara, M. et al. (1995). Comparison between Morphine Levels in Subjects Who died of Acute Narcotism and Subjects Who died of Other Causes. In: Mangin, P., Ludes, B. (eds) Acta Medicinæ Legalis Vol. XLIV 1994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79523-7_137
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