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Fatal α-PVP and amphetamine poisoning during a sauna and autoerotic practices
- Source :
- Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature, 2020.
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Abstract
- We describe the sudden death of a middle-aged man while having a sauna under the influence of α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone (α-PVP) (PM blood concentration: 0.8 mg/L), amphetamine (0.34 mg/L), and other drugs (buprenorphine, benzodiazepines), and engaging in solitary sexual activities. The drugs’ effects on the cardio-circulatory system and on body thermoregulation combined with the high temperatures are likely to have been central mechanisms leading to death. The high levels of adrenaline triggered by sexual arousal and the respiratory depression caused by buprenorphine, in association with benzodiazepines, may have also contributed to his death. This previously unreported type of accidental autoerotic death illustrates the risk of using amphetamine-like sympathomimetic drugs (e.g. cathinone derivates) in hot environments such as a sauna, and during sexual activities therein.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pyrrolidines
DEATHS
Cathinone
Substance-Related Disorders
Sexual arousal
Poison control
Case Report
alpha-PVP
Sudden death
α-PVP
Designer Drugs
Steam Bath
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Benzodiazepines
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
Hyperthermia
EXPOSURE
030216 legal & forensic medicine
Amphetamine
Contraction band necrosis
BATH SALTS
business.industry
319 Forensic science and other medical sciences
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Buprenorphine
Masturbation
3. Good health
CATHINONES
Anesthesia
Autoerotic death
Respiratory Insufficiency
business
Sauna
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
medicine.drug
Bath salts
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e3bbc372500f92caf3c783181f0c179d