Drugs of abuse identified in the National Institute of Legal Medicine Mina Minovici Bucharest 2010

In the last few years in Romania a modern system of drug detection has been developed in the legal medicine system, increasing the detection rate and the sensitivity of DRD detection. In this short report we will present a general profile of drug abuse in Bucharest in 2010. The study was conducted in 2010 when a total number of 208 toxicology tests were conducted in the National Institute of Legal Medicine, 105 on cadavers and 103 on living persons. As main results, in living the most frequently identified drugs of abuse were THC and opiates whilst in cadavers opiates were the most frequent, followed by benzodiazepines. Conclusions. Opiate consumption has a tendency to decrease compared with 2009. Legal highs seems to shift the pattern of drug consumption in Bucharest and surrounding areas, but a definite results can only be obtained using test results from 2011.