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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Not an expert in the least. Just watch a crapton of Law & Order (doink doink). They run a tox screen for drugs. If it comes back positive they look at how much of the drug is in the system of the deceased. If it’s 25 times the normal limit that is known to be harmful, it wasn’t accidental. They would then talk to friends, family, and people that saw her the night her death (including who she left with). They might even do a little digging into the background of the guy she left with.
If the screen comes back with normal levels of several drugs that are known to be fatal toxic when combined? Potentially accidental. They’d then investigate what meds were legally prescribed, found in the home, or known to be used by the deceased. They would repeat the taking to everyone as listed per above and the make a determination.
Again, this could be wrong, but that’s how Ice-T does it.
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