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Over the past two decades, prescription and illicit opioid use has led to changes in public health policy to address the increasing number of opioid‐related deaths. The purpose of this study was to review cases from Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office between 2004 through 2015 where heroin was listed as a significant contributor or as the cause of death. We identified 322 heroin‐related deaths,...
The current study was undertaken to determine the relationship between postmortem (PM) peripheral blood (PB) and liver fentanyl concentrations and the role of measuring liver fentanyl concentrations in cause of death investigations in medical examiner cases in which fentanyl was identified.FB and liver tissue were routinely collected at autopsy from 4 Minnesota medical examiners' offices in 2010–2011...
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