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Investigators look into possible drug overdose
LTC Liability Monitor, November 20, 2006
Authorities are considering whether to exhume the bodies of five nursing home residents to determine whether they received a lethal drug overdose, according to the Chicago Tribune. Embalming fluids could affect the chemical balance, making it difficult, but not impossible, to determine whether the residents received a fatal drug dose, officials said. More than three weeks ago, Illinois State Police began an inquiry focused on possible morphine overdoses at the facility. Police consider the deaths suspicious but are not calling them homicides, and no one has been charged, reported the Tribune.
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