Table 5 Presence of pharmaceutical and illicit drugs in relation to manner of death among drowning deaths in Sweden (1992–2009)
Unintentional | Intentional | Undetermined | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Suicide | Homicide | |||||||
Pharmaceutical | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) |
Negative | 1613/2075 | (78) | 407/1394 | (29) | 15/17 | (88) | 391/695 | (56) |
Positive | 462/2075 | (22) | 987/1394 | (71) | 2/17 | (12) | 304/695 | (44) |
Not tested | 403/2478 | (16) | 118/1512 | (8) | 4/21 | (19) | 106/801 | (13) |
Illicit drugs | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) |
Negative | 416/459 | (91) | 185/193 | (96) | 11/13 | (85) | 160/189 | (85) |
Positive | 43/459 | (9) | 8/193 | (4) | 2/13 | (15) | 29/189 | (15) |
Not tested | 2019/2478 | (81) | 1319/1512 | (87) | 8/21 | (38) | 612/801 | (76) |