Figure 1: Variables that may affect decomposition and postmortem interval estimates, including drugs of abuse, medication, end-of-life diseases, scavenger behavior, insect behavior, and intestinal microbes.

This image is figure 1 in the NIJ Journal article The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition: What Insect, Scavenger, and Microbial Evidence Tells Us.

Variables that may affect decomposition and postmortem interval estimates, including drugs of abuse, medication, end-of-life diseases, scavenger behavior, insect behavior, and intestinal microbes.