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Party Hard: Drug-related Fatalities in Ibiza from 2010 to 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

R. Santacroce ,
C. Ruiz Bennasar ,
J.R. Sancho Jaraiz ,
C. Montemitro ,
G. Baroni ,
M. Corbo ,
A. Pasquini ,
F. Sarchione ,
F. Angelini  and
G. Catalano
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R. Santacroce
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
C. Ruiz Bennasar
Affiliation:
Instituto de Medicina Legal de Las Illes Balears, Subdirección de Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain
J.R. Sancho Jaraiz
Affiliation:
Instituto de Medicina Legal de Las Illes Balears, Subdirección de Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain
C. Montemitro
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
G. Baroni
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
M. Corbo
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
A. Pasquini
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
F. Sarchione
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
F. Angelini
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
G. Catalano
Affiliation:
Libera Università Maria SS Assunta, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Rome, Italy
M.L. Carenti
Affiliation:
Libera Università Maria SS Assunta, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Rome, Italy
C. Di Taranto
Affiliation:
Casa di Cura Villa Maria Pia, Servizio di Neuropsichiatria, Rome, Italy
S. Tenuta
Affiliation:
Casa di Cura Villa Maria Pia, Servizio di Neuropsichiatria, Rome, Italy
U. Lecciso
Affiliation:
Casa di Cura Villa Maria Pia, Servizio di Neuropsichiatria, Rome, Italy
M. De Angelis
Affiliation:
Casa di Cura Villa Maria Pia, Servizio di Neuropsichiatria, Rome, Italy
A. Rondoni
Affiliation:
Casa di Cura Villa Maria Pia, Servizio di Neuropsichiatria, Rome, Italy
M. Di Giannantonio
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
G. Martinotti
Affiliation:
University “G.d’Annunzio”, Department of Neuroscience- Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Chieti, Italy

Abstract

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Introduction

Illicit drug use is well known as an important contributor to the global burden of diseases, but the physical and psychopathological risks of recreational drugs misuse are often underestimated and drug-related fatalities in specific settings are under-investigated.

Objectives and methods

In the framework of the EU-funded project “EU-Madness”, we collected and analysed all the reports of drug-related fatalities in Ibiza from January 2010 to September 2016, with the aim of characterising the sample, and identifying the involved substances and the nature of deaths associated with their consumption.

Results

Overall, 58 drug-related fatalities were registered from 2010 to September 2016 (87.9% males, 12.1% females, mean age 33.16; females were significantly younger than males). Most of the deceased were Britons (36.2%), followed by Spanish (22.4%), Italians (6.9%) and Germans (5.2%). In half the cases, the substance identified in post-mortem analyses was a stimulant; in 24.1% of the sample it was a depressor a prescription drug or more than two substances in 22.4%. Most of the fatalities were due to cardiovascular accidents (62%); 22.4% were deaths by drowning, 12% by fall from heights and 3.4% were due to mechanical asphyxia.

Conclusions

According to the results from our sample, stimulants (mainly MDMA and cocaine) are the substances of abuse involved in most drug-caused fatalities. The number of fatalities per year has been steadily increasing, but the growing diffusion of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) does not seem to be a direct cause (although better methods of their analysis in post-mortem samples should be designed).

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
Oral communications: Classification of mental disorders; comorbidity/dual pathologies; psychopathology; psychopharmacology and pharmacoeconomics and sleep disorders & stress
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S79 - S80
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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