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Since 1993 in Portugal, it is possible, by legal enforcement, to request forensic examination to study possible conditions of drug addiction. On the basis of examinations carried out in the Medico Legal Institute of Oporto, we present a study of 494 cases involving the relation to the demographic data of the examined individuals, their family background, legal situation, age at which drug consumption began, consumption profile at the beginning and at time of forensic examination and our conclusions.
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Medicina Legal/legislação & jurisprudência , Medicina Legal/estatística & dados numéricos , Testes Obrigatórios/legislação & jurisprudência , Testes Obrigatórios/estatística & dados numéricos , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias/legislação & jurisprudência , Detecção do Abuso de Substâncias/estatística & dados numéricos , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/diagnóstico , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/etiologia , Academias e Institutos , Adolescente , Adulto , Distribuição por Idade , Escolaridade , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Defesa do Paciente/legislação & jurisprudência , Portugal/epidemiologia , Fatores de Risco , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/epidemiologiaRESUMO
In 1997, 52 child victims of sexual abuse were examined at Oporto Institute of Forensic Medicine. The authors analysed the data concerning these cases in an attempt to contribute to the elucidation of child sexual abuse, particularly in the north of Portugal.
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The authors aim to characterise sexual abuse within the marital relationship. They analyzed the reports of the clinical examinations performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Oporto on victims of sexual abuse from January 1990 until December 1994. They also randomly interviewed victims of physical abuse at the Institute to determine if sexual abuse was performed by their partners. This study shows that complaints are rarely reported by victims of sexual abuse in marital relationships, and in all the cases studied where sexual abuse was verified it was accompanied by other forms of abuse.
