How do drug overdoses get classified as intentional or accidental?

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This stems from a case happening in my home state. A woman* (in her mid twenties) was found buried in a shallow grave behind a home after leaving a bar with a man “with no force indicated”. The coroner ruled her death was an accidental overdose. How do they know it was accidental? Couldn’t this guy have given her these drugs? What’s the protocol for determining intentional or accidental overdoses?

Edit: changed young girl to woman

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You can’t call an overdose intentional unless there are facts to support it. Default is accidental unless proven otherwise.

Being found dead, buried in a shallow grave says to me someone tried to cover it up, overdose or not. I’d imagine that would be cause for some sort of criminal charges at the very least related to moving or tampering with a corpse? Sounds fishy.

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