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Someone can be tested for drugs at any time after death. The testing for drugs and other substances usually occurs at the time of autopsy if their is suspicion that the use of drugs or other substances attributed to the death of the deceased or other people. The process in which drugs tests are performed on the deceased is known as forensic toxicology.

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