The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education (CFSRE), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Network of Public Health Institute (NNPHI), and the Public Health Institute (PHI), announced a new no-cost webinar series focusing attention on drug-caused and drug-related deaths. This 10-part webinar series brings together medicolegal death investigators, forensic …
Death by Distribution
Investigating and Certifying Drug Caused and Related Deaths: 2026 Updates and Challenges
Free 10-part webinar series on toxicology and drug-related deaths offered by CFSRE
Investigating and Certifying Drug Caused and Related Deaths: 2026 Updates and ChallengesRead More
Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award
Defending Drug Overdose Homicides Trainings
Free recorded presentations, sample pleadings and more offered by NACDL
North Carolina Overdose Epidemic Data
NC Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health webpage compiling overdose data by county
Affidavit of Jennifer Carroll, PhD, MPH, MA
Addresses public health consequences of laws creating criminal liability for accidental drug overdose and provides research supporting the following conclusions:
Appellant Reply Brief in State v. Anderson
Addresses defendant’s motion to dismiss where evidence on causation was insufficient, failure to instruct the jury on intervening acts of others, failure to instruct the jury on lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter when the evidence of malice was in conflict, and court’s failure to intervene in state’s closing argument. Reply Brief filed in June …
Appellant Brief in State v. Anderson
Appellant’s Brief addressing trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss where the state did not prove the defendant’s actions proximately caused the decedents’ deaths and another individual’s actions were a superseding cause of the decedents’ deaths which broke the chain of causation. Also addresses trial court’s failure to instruct on whether intentional acts by …
State v. Anderson, 294 N.C. App. 125 (2024) (unpublished)
Unpublished Court of Appeals opinion addressing proximate cause, chain of causation, intervening acts, and jury instructions on intervening cause and involuntary manslaughter.
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Appellant Brief in State v. McCrorey
Addresses complex chain of causation, proximate cause, identify of the controlled substance, and cause of death. Brief filed in Aug. 2023 in 2020 case.
Pattern Jury Instruction 206.76
Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Delivery with Malice of Certain Controlled Substances
Pattern Jury Instruction 206.74
Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Delivery of Certain Controlled Substances
Pattern Jury Instruction 206.72
Aggravated Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Sale of Certain Controlled Substances
Pattern Jury Instruction 206.70
Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Sale of Certain Controlled Substances
NC Gen Stat 90-92
Schedule IV controlled substances
