[Multifactorial studies of 154 fatalities of psychotropic drug poisoning]

The documents of 154 drug victims dissected in the Centre of Legal Medicine of the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1987 and 1988 were examined by computer. The average age i.e. was 26 years, the share of women 23 per cent. In 47 per cent the main cause of death was an overdoses of heroin and in 48 per cent heroin was the first drug that was taken. 58 per cent of the drug victims came from totally intact families.