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Simply put, toxicology aids in determining if there were any poisons or toxins in the deceased. It assists in determining a cause of death.
Blood and urine are drawn during the autopsy and sent to the lab for toxicology reports.
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Autopsy.
The toxicology report will test for the presence of poisons, medications, alcohol and illicit drugs. this is important in telling the cause of death and the circumstances surrounding the death. It can tell you if a person was high, drunk, or poisoned at the time of death.
The autopsy finding in the death of Rhonda Hart was natural causes. She was not sick with any disease such as cancer at the time of her death.
The autopsy said she died from drowning in the bathtub of her hotel room, after she passed out; and the toxicology report, which was mentioned by the coroner, noted she had damaged her heart from prolonged cocaine use.
The toxicology report detects drugs. This is performed concurrently with an autopsy, but the results may take a few days to receive.
Not if it's been authorised by a coroner. Unless a death is obviously natural causes, it must be investigated by means of an autopsy.
on the autopsy report, they list the cuse of death as old age, or natural causes
No, she did not commit suicide. The cause of Whitney Houston's death was finally released on March 22, 2012. After Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California, there was speculation that drugs had played a role in her death. The official autopsy and toxicology reports, issued by the Los Angeles County Coroner, show that the causes of Whitney Houston's death were drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use."
toxicology is bit harder then virology as in toxicology you have to take different animal models & then you have to study the toxic effect of drug on that animal which sometimes causes death too which makes it a little cruel&harsh act.