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Exploring the impact of xenobiotic drugs on forensic entomology for accurate post-mortem interval estimation

Sapna Jain, Jonathan J. Parrott, Gulnaz T. Javan
Frontiers in Insect Science Summary & key facts 2025 10 citations

Researchers looked through past studies to see how drugs and poisons in a dead body change how insects grow. They followed a standard process for reviewing studies called PRISMA. Overall, they found that common drugs like morphine, heroin, other opiates, and cocaine usually do not change the time from a…

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