PMID- 16175411
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070719
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 0937-9827 (Print)
IS  - 0937-9827 (Linking)
VI  - 121
IP  - 1
DP  - 2007 Jan
TI  - An announced suicide with ecstasy.
PG  - 40-3
AB  - Most cases of ecstasy overdose turn out to be accidental, whereas suicide 
      attempts with designer drugs occur only sporadically. We report an announced 
      suicide by means of a combination of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and 
      3,4-methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA). During autopsy, sampling for 
      toxicological investigation (peripheral blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, bile 
      and gastric contents) occurred. Serum concentrations as high as 13.33 mg/l for 
      MDMA, 7.32 mg/l for MDEA and 0.43 mg/l for 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine were 
      found. Ecstasy tablets, which were confiscated by the police a few days earlier, 
      showed also a combination of MDMA and MDEA. This fact suggests that the ingested 
      tablets probably came from the same source as the seized pills.
FAU - Libiseller, Kathrin
AU  - Libiseller K
AD  - Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Muellerstrasse 44, 
      6020, Innsbruck, Austria. kathrin.libiseller@uibk.ac.at
FAU - Pavlic, Marion
AU  - Pavlic M
FAU - Grubwieser, Petra
AU  - Grubwieser P
FAU - Rabl, Walter
AU  - Rabl W
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20050921
PL  - Germany
TA  - Int J Legal Med
JT  - International journal of legal medicine
JID - 9101456
RN  - 0 (Drug Combinations)
RN  - 4764-17-4 (3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine)
RN  - KE1SEN21RM (N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine)
RN  - ML1I4KK67B (3,4-methylenedioxyethamphetamine)
SB  - IM
MH  - 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine/*analogs & derivatives/poisoning
MH  - Adult
MH  - Austria
MH  - Autopsy/*methods
MH  - Drug Combinations
MH  - Drug Overdose/pathology
MH  - Forensic Toxicology/*methods
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine/*poisoning
MH  - *Suicide
EDAT- 2005/09/22 09:00
MHDA- 2007/07/20 09:00
CRDT- 2005/09/22 09:00
PHST- 2004/11/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2005/08/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2005/09/22 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/07/20 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/09/22 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s00414-005-0039-9 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Legal Med. 2007 Jan;121(1):40-3. doi: 10.1007/s00414-005-0039-9. Epub 2005 
      Sep 21.