ABSTRACT

Among intoxication cases, factors like age and sex of into-xicated people, substance speciality, whether more than one substance is used, therapy, complications are studied in Turkey and other countries. At the 5th Specialization Board of the State Institute of the Forensic Medicine of Turkey, when the ca-ses related to intoxication are evaluated and concluded, some deficiencies about evidences effect last decision about intoxica- tion. We intended to study the importance of statistical me-aning of all variables effecting the conclusion statistically.

Reports of the 5th Specialization Board of the State Institu-te of the Forensic Medicine of Turkey, about intoxicated cases or suspected intoxicated cases at the year of 2001 are examined. In all these documents, age, sex, drug/ substance method of du-ration between substance intake and investigation of substance in laboratuary, whether any complications and any disease exist among intoxicated people, any reason other than intoxi-cation is present to cause death of people, whether any treat-ment is used for intoxicated people, number of substances that are used, whether medical and legal document is present, are in-vestigated. All data are statistically examined and effect of all variables to last decision is discussed.

Keywords: Intoxication, postmortem, autopsy, forensic medicine.