Problems of Forensic Sciences 2000 Vol. 42 (XLII) 181-188
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF AN INTOXICATION FOR THE MEMBERS OF TIAFT?
Donald R. A. UGES
Laboratory of Clinical and Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis, Department of Pharmacy and Toxicology, University Centre of Pharmacy and University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Streszczenie
New insights in medicine and criminalistics, requires an adjustment of existing definition of a human poisoning: "An individual's medical or social unacceptable condition as a result of being under influence of an exogenous substance in a too high dose for the person concerned". For legal and medical purposes of this definition is important to know how the victim became poisoned. In general, there are three possibilities of causing a medical poisoning: the accidental poisonings, among with the iatrogenic poisonings, the experimental and the intentional poisonings. Nowadays, beside euthanasia, suicide and homicide, iatrogenic intoxications, poisonings caused by the Münchhausen's syndrome (by proxy) and experimental poisoning (designer drugs) seems to get an evident place in contemporary toxicology. Although some toxicologists use the word "intoxication" only for an overdose with central effects, in this article "intoxication" and "poisoning" are considered to be synonyms.
Słowa kluczowe
Homicide; Intoxication; Iatrogenic; Pills.