What causes death if someone has taken a drug overdose?

Subject: What causes death if someone has taken a drug overdose?

Date: Sat Apr 18 16:16:41 1998
Posted by Peter Chawner
Grade level: undergrad
School: Sheffield Hallam University
City: Sheffield State/Province: Yorkshire
Country: UK
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 892934201.Me

Message:


The drugs I am most interested in ascertaining the effect of are phenobarbitone 
and pentobarbitone.  I have a forensics project at university and am trying to 
establish a cause of death given that the victim took an overdose of one or both 
of these substances.

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