Table 1.

Demographics and clinical characteristics of drug-free and age-matched control subjects and cocaine overdose victims

Case	Age (years)	Sex	Race	Autolysis (hr)	Cause of death	Toxicology				Temperature (°F)
						Blood Cocaine/BE (mg/l)		Brain Cocaine/BE (mg/kg)
1	38	F	W	11	Homicide	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
2	20	F	B	14.5	Homicide	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
3	19	M	W	9.5	Homicide	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
4	21	M	B	19.5	Motor vehicle accident	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
5	37	M	W	9.5	Occlusive CA disease	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
6	26	F	B	12	Hypertensive heart disease	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
7	29	M	W	11	Motor vehicle accident	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
8	25	M	W	12–18	Calcific aortic stenosis	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
9	26	M	W	13.5	Homicide	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
10	29	M	W	23	Fibromuscular dysplasia	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	Normal
11	26	M	W	9	Cocaine overdose	2.10	10.50	6.08	5.15	Normal
12	27	M	W	16	Cocaine overdose	0.94	1.40	2.24	1.80	Normal
13	29	M	W	24	Cocaine overdose	349.0	20.00	3.52	3.52	Normal
14	38	M	W	14	Cocaine overdose	8.90	7.00	>20.00	3.70	Normal
15	27	M	W	21	Cocaine overdose	0.36	5.8	5.40	2.98	Normal
16	42	M	B	11	Cocaine overdose	0.19	4.10	3.55	5.34	Normal
17	29	M	W	6.5	Cocaine overdose	7.80	11.40	13.00	2.10	Normal
18	26	M	B	12.5	Excited delirium	0.50	0.25	1.17	0.47	105.2
19	25	M	B	21	Excited delirium	0.40	0.05	0.37	1.51	107.2
20	42	M	W	14	Excited delirium	0.70	10.60	1.01	4.15	110.0
21	31	M	W	12	Excited delirium	1.20	6.20	1.65	2.52	105.4
22	30	M	B	10	Excited delirium	1.00	2.30	1.96	0.84	102.4
23	29	M	B	6.5	Excited delirium	0.26	2.20	1.48	1.31	102.5
24	32	M	B	6	Excited delirium	0.05	1.40	0.09	0.66	106.3
25	26	F	B	8	Excited delirium	0.40	1.10	3.30	0.43	n.a.
26	33	M	B	24	Excited delirium	0.07	1.90	0.22	0.88	108.0

Autolysis, Interval between time of death and freezing of the brain; BE, benzoylecgonine; n.d., none detected; n.a., not available.