Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:1667-1669
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Sudden death from acute cocaine intoxication in Virginia in 1988
R McKelway, V Vieweg and P Westerman
Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville.
A review of medical examiners' autopsy records revealed that in 1988, 33
residents of Virginia died of acute cocaine intoxication. The subjects were
19 to 45 years old; most were men, used cocaine intravenously, and used
other toxic substances with the lethal dose of cocaine.
