Journal of Forensic Medicine

Department of of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, La Rioja Institute, La Rioja, Spain

Publications

• Case Report   
  Cocaine-Induced Psychosis, Frustrated Suicide with a Firearm and Subsequent Conviction for Attempted Homicide
  Author(s): Bernat N Tiffon* and Jorge González-Fernández
  
  From the presentation and the clinical-legal analysis of the case, the following conclusions can be drawn: The hopelessness and anguish typical of major depressive disorders with severe symptoms are important in terms of the possibility of suicidal risk. A case of suicide by the combined use of massive cocaine ingestion and a firearm shot in the chest of the suicide is illustrated, having survived the impact of the firearm due to the mechanical and pathological action of the massive ingestion of the cocaine substance in the body in a chronic addictdependent subject... Read More»
  

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