ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 5

A Hydromorphone and Ethanol Fatality
Levine, B
Toxicologist, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, MD

Saady, J
Toxicologist, Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia, VA

Valentour, J
Toxicologist, Department of General Services, Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services, Bureau of Forensic Sciences, VA

Fierro, M
Assistant chief medical examiner, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, VA

(Received 18 April 1983; accepted 2 July 1983)

Abstract

A case report is presented of a fatality where death is attributed to the combined central nervous system-depressing effects of ethanol and hydromorphone. Blood and tissue levels of hydromorphone are reported and the concentrations are compared to previously reported data.

Keywords:
toxicology, pathology and biology, alcohol, hydromorphone

Paper ID: JFS11720J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11720J
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