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Sudden death from acute cocaine intoxication in Virginia in 1988

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.12.1667

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.

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