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Figure 6-9: Fatal overdoses from benzodiazepines, illegal drugs, and inhalants, 1998–2010 (Národní monitorovací středisko pro
drogy a drogové závislosti a SSLST ČLS JEP, 2011)
Note: Inhalants have been monitored independently since 2001. Data from forensic medicine departments have been available in electronic
database form since 2001.
6.3.1.2 Deaths with the Presence of Drugs
Altogether, 117 deaths with the presence of drugs were identified in 2010 (there were also 117 in 2009). Eleven of
these cases were due to natural causes, i.e. illness (eight in 2009), 58 cases involved accidents (51 in 2009), 46
involved suicides (47 in 2009), and two were cases of manslaughter or murder (seven in 2009). An overview of the
numbers and proportions of selected groups of drugs in the individual groups of deaths in which drugs were present
is given in Table 6-15; the trend since 2004 is shown in Figure 6-10 (Národní monitorovací středisko pro drogy a
drogové závislosti a SSLST ČLS JEP, 2011). In the long term, a growing number of cases of indirect deaths where
pervitin and THC were found are particularly evident, although there has been a slight decline in the case of THC in
the past two years. Opioids used in substitution treatment were not found in any cases of deaths with the presence
of drugs in 2010.
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