We don’t know how many people die in custody each year and even less
about how they die. What can coroners do about it?
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Obituaries: Obsolete or Evolving?
If you’ve recently tried to find out what happened to someone from your past (and who hasn’t?), an online search may be futile. Obituaries seem to be disappearing. Or are they? Are obituaries less common now? Changes in population, society, and technology in the past 25 years make it impossible to determine if families are…
Kratom: Panacea or Peril?
When I did an online search for “what is kratom?” this past week, thousands of results popped up. That wasn’t the case in 2018, when I certified a young man’s cause of death as “acute mitragynine intoxication.” At the time the opioid epidemic was near its peak, so this was an unexpected toxicological finding. I’d…