Psychoactive substances and violent offences: A retrospective analysis of presentations to an urban emergency department in Switzerland.

Psychoactive substances are often regarded as causal factors contributing to violent injuries, sexual abuse and homicides. While these effects have been demonstrated for some substances (e.g. cocaine), current available data for others are more controversial (e.g. cannabis) or very limited (e.g. ecs...

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Main Authors: Evangelia Liakoni, Fabienne Gartwyl, Meret Ricklin, Aristomenis K Exadaktylos, Stephan Krähenbühl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5875877?pdf=render