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Cause & Manner Blog Hiatus
After a recent trip to South Dakota, I decided the Cause & Manner blog needs its own vacation. The blog will be taking a short hiatus so I can concentrate on finishing the memoir I’ve been writing about my time as a coroner. If you’ve written something similar (published or unpublished), please get in touch!…
2023 update on xylazine, a not-so-new drug of abuse
The Chester County Coroner’s office recently hosted a 2023 update on xylazine for law enforcement, first responders, emergency medical providers, and medicolegal death investigators. DEA and FBI agents, Penn Medicine and Cooper University Hospital experts, forensic toxicologist Dr. Sherry Kacinko from NMS Labs, and deputies from Chester County Drug and Alcohol Services and Coroner’s Office…