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Drug abuse has medico-legal implications, namely in Forensic Pathology because it can shorten life as well as lead directly or undirectly to death. Drug induced deaths are the direct effect of overdose. Drug related deaths refer, on one hand, to death that result from pathological alterations due to long time consume or, on the other hand, to violent deaths in which drugs consume and /or its influence on the victims is a determinant factor in the circumstances of the intervention of the external agent. The purposes of the medico-legal investigation of drug abuser’s are, apart from the diagnosis of the direct cause of death, to establish the relation between drug abuse and death in order to assess its mortality.
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Ribeiro, I.P., Dias, M.J. (1995). Drug Induced and Drug Related Deaths in 1993 at the Medico-Legal Institute of Lisbon. 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_59
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