Valeria Piersanti, Gabriele Napoletano, Maria Chiara David, Federica Umani Ronchi, Enrico Marinelli, Lina De Paola, Simona Zaami
Volatile Solvents Abuse (VSA) poses major health risks, especially for young people and those living in precarious socio-economic conditions. Such substances can in fact bring about psychoactive effects such as euphoria, and even lead to sudden death from cardiac arrhythmias, respiratory depression, myocardial infarction, laryngospasm, encephalopathy, and rhabdomyolysis. The present case report is centered around a 23-year-old man who died in prison due to inhalation of a cooker gas mixture (n-butane, propane, and isobutane) inside a plastic bag...
March 11, 2024: Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine