Resource Tag: NARCOTICS

Study reports findings on the death by overdose of 24 drug addicts & whether or not these deaths were actual suicides. The Rorschach test was used to determine whether these addicts had presented the signs of being a greater suicidal risk. Comparisons were made in 4 areas: reality contact, energies, feelings & intellectual control. Findings […]

The authors tested the hypothesis that people addicted to opiates manifest more psychopathology in areas that have been identified as predictors for high risk of suicidal behavior than do normal control subjects. They gave 278 patients in a methadone maintenance program and 207 normal control subjects the Index of Potential Suicide. Using discriminate function analysis, […]

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has official responsibility for the investigation of all deaths that are apparently unnatural to determine the cause of death and the classification as to mode: homicide, suicide, accident or natural. All deaths related to drug abuse must be referred to this Office. Investigation includes examination of the scene […]