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We aimed to determine: (i) the toxicological profile of cocaine, metabolites and adulterants amongst three groups of cocaine\u2010related fatalities in which cocaine and\/or metabolites were present in blood: (a) fatal toxicity, where cocaine only (CO) was present (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a048), (b) multiple drug toxicity (MDT) where other drugs were present (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0604), and (c) a comparison group of death from traumatic injury (TI, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0232); (ii) the acute clinical presentation by group; and (iii) cardiovascular disease by group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Retrospective study of cocaine\u2010related deaths in Australia, 2000\u20132021, from the National Coronial Information System.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The parent drug cocaine was significantly more common, and had a higher median concentration, amongst the CO group (97.9%, 1.550\u2009mg\/L) than the MDT (68.9%, 0.09\u2009mg\/L) and TI (70.7%, 0.05\u2009mg\/L) groups respectively. 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