As Overdose Deaths Pile Up, a Medical Examiner Quits the Morgue

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As Overdose Deaths Pile Up, a Medical Examiner Quits the Morgue

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYEOCT. 7, 2017
 

CONCORD, N.H. — In the state morgue here, in the industrial maze of a hospital basement, Dr. Thomas A. Andrew was slicing through the lung of a 36-year-old woman when white foam seeped out onto the autopsy table.

Foam in the lungs is a sign of acute intoxication caused by an opioid. So is a swollen brain, which she also had. But Dr. Andrew, the chief medical examiner of New Hampshire, would not be certain of the cause of death until he could rule out other causes, like a brain aneurysm or foul play, and until after the woman’s blood tests had come back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/us/drug-overdose-medical-examiner.html

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This is what makes democrats so great.  They focus on really important stuff that kills a few people here and there, like rifle butts, and don't worry about drug deaths which vastly outnumber mass shooting deaths.