Recent Paramethoxyamphetamine Deaths

Death and paramethoxyamphetamine - an evolving problem.

DEATH FROM AMPHETAMINE USE is a well recognised occurrence, with most reported fatalities involving the use of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, or “ecstasy”). In 1998, a series of six cases of death due to an unusual amphetamine drug, paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA), was reported in South Australia.1 The only other comparable report of deaths due to PMA was that of nine deaths in Ontario, ...

Poisoning with the recreational drug paramethoxyamphetamine ("death").

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical features of paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA; "death") poisoning and to compare these with those of people with self-reported "ecstasy" poisoning. DESIGN Retrospective casenote review. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING 22 patients who presented to the Emergency Department of the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), a major metropolitan teaching hospital, between 1 January 199...

Deaths

Effect on local death rates of recent changes in the statistical treatment of hospital deaths.

A previous communication (Hewitt, 1957) drew attention to the disturbances in official mortality rates for local areas of England and Wales which had resulted from a change in the statistical treatment of deaths occurring in hospital. There have since been two further changes in the official procedure, and some revaluation is called for. Successive modifications of the statistical practice have...

Traffic deaths: recent evolution and regional differences in Bahia State, Brazil.

This study describes the temporal evolution of mortality due to traffic accidents in regions within Bahia State, Brazil, from 1996 to 2007, using data from the Brazilian Mortality Information System. We calculated overall rates of mortality due to traffic accidents and specific rates by type of victim. Temporal evolution was analyzed by means of correlations between rates and years of study, as...