kilos in weight. Patient had developed oedema and a
blistering rash. Still injecting cocaine on a daily basis. His liver
function tests were deranged. PM toxicology: morphine =
0.08mg/L; methadone = 2.11mg/L. PM pathology: The liver
was brown and shrunken with prominent nodules on its
surface. The appearances were those of advanced
macronodular cirrhosis. [Coronial file no. 22]