TY - JOUR PY - 1983// TI - Deaths from drugs and poisons JO - New Zealand medical journal A1 - Cairns, F. J. A1 - Koelmeyer, T. D. A1 - Smeeton, W. M. SP - 1045 EP - 1048 VL - 96 IS - 746 N2 - In the eight years from 1975 to 1982, 11 262 ***coronial**autopsies were performed in the School of Medicine, Auckland. Three hundred and ninety-four of the deaths were due to the action of a drug or poison. In this paper we examine the motives and circumstances, age and sex distribution, drugs used and other aspects of these 394 deaths.
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