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Forensic S‘c| i. ence \) ' : + ie Forensic Science International lnternati>o nal ELSEVIER SCIENCT IRELAND 62 (1993) 245-246 CONTENTS Volume 62 (1993) Special Issue: Risks of Drug Abuse in a Global Context. Mini-reviews presented at the 7Ist Annual Congress of the German Society of Legal Medicine, Berlin, Germany, 15-19 September, 1992 Preface Drug policy and the system of care and treatment in the Federal Republic of Germany by P. Raschke (Hamburg, Germany) Harm reduction — a common cause by R.G. Newman (New York, USA) Drugs and aids in Southeast-Asia by V. Poshyachinda (Bangkok, Thailand) Juvenile delinquency and drug dependence in Hungary by F. Kosa, A. Laszik, A. Antal, J. Szendrényi (Szeged, Hungary) A few aspects of British drug policies — an outside view by C. Borkenstein (Berlin, Germany) Health policy and the prohibition of some psychoactive substances — the actual political situation in Switzerland by O. Jakob (Basel, Switzerland) Basic concepts of treatment and rehabilitation of drug dependence and how they are conteracted by the legalizing debate by S. Schuler (Parsberg, Germany) Advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives of private practice, public health office and clinic out-patient department as dispensaries for methadone substitution of drug users by R. Bornemann (Bielefeld, Germany) Methadone-substitution and driving ability by H. Réssler, H.J. Battista, F. Deisenhammer, V. Giinther, P. Pohl, L. Prokop, Y. Riemer (Innsbruck, Austria) .. Correlation between disease and community: is drug addiction a problem of fringe groups? by R. Baumgarten (Berlin, Germany). HIV prevalence and risk behaviour in injecting drug users in Berlin by K. Stark, R. Miller (Berlin, Germany) , Preventing the spread of HIV among Australian injecting drug users by A. Wodak (Darlinghurst, Australia) . HIV-1 prevalence among drug deaths — a multicenter study by U. Lockemann, K. Piischel (Hamburg, Germany) . Differences between the course of the drug addict’s HIV infection and that of other HIV-infected patients by J. Gélz (Berlin, Germany) .. . 246 Volume Contents / Forensic Sci. Int. 62 (1993) 245-246 Neuropathologic analysis of postmortal brain samples of HIV-seropositive and -seronegative i.v. drug addicts by G. Gosztonyi, V. Schmidt, R. Nickel, M.A. Rothschild, S. Camacho, G. Siegel, E. Zill, G. Pauli, V. Schneider (Berlin, Germany) 101-105 Local measures for the reduction of drug emergency risks and drug mortality risks by H.-J. Zenker, C. Zenker, P. Lang (Bremen, Germany) 107-110 Drug emergencies in Bremen in 1991 and 1992 by P. Lang, C. Zenker (Bremen, Germany) 111-116 Drug emergency patients are a burden for the medical care system: inadequate care for drug emergency patients by C. Zenker, P. Lang (Bremen, Germany) 117-120 Drug-related death — an update by K. Piischel (Hamburg, Germany) 121-128 Etiology of accidental/unexpected overdose in drug-induced deaths by K. Piischel, F. Teschke, U. Castrup (Hamburg and Berlin, Germany) 129-134 Drug death autopsies at the Munich Institute of Forensic Medicine (1981-1992) by R. Penning, E. Fromm, P. Betz, G. Kauert, G. Drasch, L. von Meyer (Miinchen, Germany) 135-139 A survey of drug deaths in western Austria by H.J. Battista, H. Réssler, R. Haller, H. Kohler, Y. Riemer, R. Henn, H. Hinterhuber (Innsbruck and Franstanz, Austria) 141-146 Preliminary results of an interdisciplinary survey of drug victims by H.-G. Keul, V. Schafer, U. Lércher, M. Schneider, F.-U. Lutz, J. Reuhl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 147-149 Typology of drug abuse deaths in Hamburg by K. Piischel, F. Teschke, U. Castrup, W. Schulz-Schaeffer, W. Heckmann (Hamburg and Berlin, Germany) 151-155 Undetected drug addict fatalities by W. Schulz-Schaeffer, W. Elwers, A. Schmoldt (Hamburg, Germany) 157-159 Comparison of drug abuse fatalities and emergencies by W. Schulz-Schaeffer, A. Schmoldt, T. Peters, K. Piischel (Hamburg, Germany) . 161-166 Drug abuse emergencies in Hamburg 1990/91 by W. Schulz-Schaeffer, T. Peters, K. Piischel (Hamburg, Germany) 167-171 Editorial The impact of forensic science journals by A.W. Jones (Linképing, Sweden) 173-178 Extraction and quantitation of paraquat and diquat from blood by T. Matsuoka, J. Okuda (Nagoya, Japan) 179-186 Positive- and negative-ion mass spectrometry of diphenylmethane antihistaminics and their analogues and rapid clean-up of them from biological samples by H. Seno, H. Hattori, T. Kumazawa, O. Suzuki (Hamamatsu and Aichi, Japan) . 187-208 Sudden death due presumably to internal use of methamphetamine by S. Katsumata, K. Sato, H. Kashiwade, S. Yamanami, H. Zhou, |. Yonemura, H. Nakajima, H. Hasekura (Tokyo, Japan) Alveolar macrophages and the diagnosis of drowning by P. Betz, A. Nerlich, R. Penning, W. Eisenmenger (Munich, Germany) The investigation of beta-hydroxybutyrate as a marker for sudden death due to hypoglycemia in alcoholics by L.N. Denmark (Edmonton, Canada) 225-232 Diary of Future Events 233-235 Subject Index 237-241 Author Index 243 Volume Contents 245-246