At Mayo Clinic, we take the time to listen, to find answers and to provide you the best care. Prescription drug abuse is the use of a prescription medication in a way not intended by the prescribing doctor.Prescription drug abuse or problematic use includes everything from taking a friend's prescription painkiller for your backache to snorting or injecting ground-up pills to get high.t Mayo Clinic, we take the time to listen, to find answers and to provide you the best care. Prescription drug abuse is the use of a prescription medication in a way not intended by the prescribing doctor.
The process of decomposition is the same for everyone, but how much time it would take varies if the body is in a casket buried in the ground. Some may decompose within a few months, and some may take many years.
Decomposition is well under way by the time burial or cremation occurs. However, the exact rate of decomposition depends to some extent on environmental conditions. Decomposition above ground is twice as fast as when the body is under water and four times as fast as underground. Corpses are preserved longer when buried deeper, as long as the ground isn't waterlogged. The whole process is generally slower in a coffin, and the body may remain identifiable for many months.