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Newest firstBackground The potent synthetic cannabinoid ADB-BUTINACA (also known as ADB-BINACA) was implicated in three fatal intoxications. Post-mortem samples, including femoral and heart blood, urine, gastric content, bile, vitreous humor, cerebrospinal fluid, and various tissues (brain, kidney, liver, lung, muscle), were analyzed. All cases were mixed intoxications with pregabalin, heroin, ketamine, MDPHP, or ethanol. Met…
Open article record in new tab ↗Cannabis sativa is one of the oldest and most versatile plants with many facets ranging from intoxicant to medicine. Legalisation of medicinal cannabis leads to an increasing complexity of specific forensic questions to distinguish between recreational and medicinal use, for example, in context with participation in road traffic. Hence, there is a recent interest in finding objective markers that enable the differ…
Open article record in new tab ↗In May 2022, semi-synthetic cannabinoids (SSC) appeared on the European drug market, claiming to offer a legal alternative with cannabimimetic effects. Since then, the use of hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) has quickly become very popular and derivatives, among them heptyl-analogs with prolonged alkyl-sidechains and acetylated forms, have appeared. First HHC-bans were introduced in some EU countries in early 2023. As on…
Purpose To assess (I) whether, in autopsy-proven lethal intoxications with opiates/opioids, a dilatation of the common bile duct (CBD) is still visible in postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) and (II) if a dilatation of the CBD might also be measurable for other substance groups (e.g., stimulants, hypnotics, antipsychotics, etc.). Methods We retrospectively measured the CBD using PMCT in cases with lethal intoxic…