Go Inokuchi, Fumiko Chiba, Yumi Hoshioka, Naoki Saito, Maiko Yoshida, Sayaka Nagasawa, Yoshikazu Yamagishi, Yohsuke Makino, Suguru Torimitsu, Rutsuko Yamaguchi, Shigeki Tsuneya, Hiroyuki Inoue, Ayumi Motomura, Daisuke Yajima, Hirotaro Iwase
Understanding the actual conditions of methamphetamine (MA)-related death is important from the perspectives of criminal justice and public health. In this report, we review 104 cases of MA-related death handled by our departments between January 2014 and December 2020. Based on information from police and autopsy examinations, we classified the cases into the following categories: "accidental intoxication" ("MA only" and "multiple drugs or alcohol"), "fatal disease" ("definitively MA-related," "possibly MA-related," and "unlikely MA-related"), "accident," "suicide," "homicide," and "undetermined...
December 1, 2022: Legal Medicine