Role of acute alcoholism in violent death. Statistics of the Lyon Medico-Legal Institute (1981-2)
Rouzioux, J.M.; Parisot, P.; Picard, J.; Vermont, J.; Isnard, E.
Presse Medicale 14(18): 1017-1023
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0755-4982 PMID: 3158946 Document Number: 255727
Over a 2-year period (1981-1982), blood alcohol levels were measured in 1371 post-mortem examinations performed at the medico-legal Institute of Lyon. These levels were higher in men, in subjects who died between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m., in corpses found in water and in subjects killed by a fall or in a fire. Among the 4 main types of death (homicide, suicide, accident and natural death), those by homicide had the highest, and those by suicide the lowest blood alcohol concentrations.