ABSTRACT
The series postmortemautopsy examination and histopat hology research in 20 cases heroin-addicts are accomplished． Research result s show that injection marks, tattoo，skin pigmentation，emaciation and harmed-self scar usua1ly point out addiction behavior: Various chronic infective diseases of organs are complicated by heroi n addiction, and the main complicated diseases are bronchopneumonia, lung absces s,chronic hepatitis，liver cirrhosis, reactive follicular hyperplasia in lymphn ode,spleen,infective angiitis, chronic inflammation in suprarenal , thyoadennitis overflowi ng degeneration and necrosis of neurocytes etc． in 20 cases, 50% cases died of ac ute heroin poison, 40% cases died of chronic infective diseases, and l0% died from violent injury．