Titre
Appearance/Image- and Performance-Enhancing Drug Users: A Forensic Approach.
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Auteur(s)
Lusetti, M.
Auteure/Auteur
Licata, M.
Auteure/Auteur
Silingardi, E.
Auteure/Auteur
Bonsignore, A.
Auteure/Auteur
Palmiere, C.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1533-404X
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2018-12
Volume
39
Numéro
4
Première page
325
Dernière page/numéro d’article
329
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
Image- and performance-enhancing drugs include a wide range of substances used to promote physical changes to enhance appearance. Anabolic androgen steroids are the most widely used image- and performance-enhancing drugs along with a wide variety of additional substances. The aim of this study was to identify the pathological changes pertaining to the cardiovascular system possibly involved in the death and characterize the substances associated with steroid use and their possible role in the death. A series of deaths involving image- and performance-enhancing drug users were selected. Nandrolone and testosterone were the most frequently identified steroids. The most commonly illegal drugs found were tetrahydrocannabinol, cocaine, and methadone. Antidepressants, opioids, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates were also found. These findings highlight that results obtained from postmortem investigations should be meticulously evaluated to understand the weight that each identified substance may have played in the death process and exclude any alternative causes of death.
Sujets
PID Serval
serval:BIB_498615F29A87
PMID
Date de création
2018-09-04T09:03:41.320Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T18:54:30Z