Figure 3. Tracking the route of morphine from the cadaver into the surrounding environment.

Morphine was present in the blood serum, the larvae that were feeding on the cadaver, the decomposition fluid, and eventually the soil as well.

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This image is figure 3 in the NIJ Journal article The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition: What Insect, Scavenger, and Microbial Evidence Tells Us.