Retrospective study of all cases in Australia in which synthetic cannabinoid use was a mechanism contributory to death.

Project Collaborators External

• Professor Johan Duflou University of Sydney

Increasing ccners reagrding harms of synthetic cannabinoid use.

The study aimed to determine:

1. The characteristics and circumstances of death of all recorded cases of synthetic cannabinoid-related sudden or unnatural death in Australia,
2. The toxicology of cases, and
3. Their major organ pathology.

Design and Method

Case series.

Progress/Update

Completed 2019.

Benefits

This paper presents the first national clinical profile of synthetic cannabinoid-related death.

Darke,S., Duflou, J., Farrell, M., Peacock, A. & Lappin, J. (2019) Characteristics and circumstances of synthetic cannabinoid-related death. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15563650.2019.1647344)