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Table 1 Type of death at the Addiction Centre and Department of Forensic Medicine

From: Number of addictive substances used related to increased risk of unnatural death: A combined medico-legal and case-record study

Type of death

Contact with Addiction Centre#

Autopsied at the Forensic Department##

Contact with Addiction Centre ###

Age (SD)

Natural death

204

1117

18

58 (±10)

Undetermined suicide

90

238

38

52 (± 13)

Suicide

45

285

16

51 (± 11)

Heroin overdose

22

44

50*

48 (± 13)

Violent death

26

666

4

38 (± 9)

  1. # (N = 4387)
  2. ## (N = 2350)
  3. ### (in percent)
  4. * before 1995 6/13 (46%), 1995 and after 16/31 (52%)