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) |