Journal of Forensic Toxicology & PharmacologyISSN: 2325-9841

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AW Jones Author

wayne.jones@liu.se

Subjects of specialization
Toxicity

Affiliation
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Link

Biography

I am AW Jones, belonging to Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, interested in the field of Substance abuse treatment.                                        

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Early Career in Drug Abuse with Preference for γ-Hydroxybutyrate Resulted in a Mixed Drug Overdose Death

Author(s):

AW Jones, FC Kugelberg

 Early Career in Drug Abuse with Preference for γ-Hydroxybutyrate Resulted in a Mixed Drug Overdose Death

The recreational drug of abuse γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) is a depressant of the central nervous system (CNS) and is often encountered in blood and urine analysed during forensic case-work. Here we report the results of toxicological analysis of blood or urine from a person arrested for abuse of illicit drugs on 28 occasions over 13 years. GHB was identified on 21 occasions, either in blood (6 times) or urine (15 times). Another popular drug of abuse was amphetamine, which was identified 15 times. The man died from a mixed-drug overdose at the age of 29 years and... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9841.1000132

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