Medico-legal investigation of narcotics & other drug involved deaths

Today narcotics and other drugs have become the major cause of poisoning in big cities of Iran. Typical study of 50 drug-related deaths caused by use of narcotics, phenobarbital, tricyclic antiderpressants, meprobamate, aspirin, diazepam, chloropromazine, phenytoin, carbamazepine and propranolole, alone or with other drugs and toxic substances is described. This study covered the following topics: age, sex, pathological examination, autopsy cause of death, medical care prior to death. In toxicological examinations, samples from stomach content, liver, kidney, findings, urine and blood samples were analysed by TLC, GC, Emit d.a.u. assay and colour test method