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.
Many of the boundaries within which a typical human can survive have been fully established; the well-known rule of threes dictates how long we can forgo air, water and food (roughly three minutes, three days and three weeks, respectively). Other limits are more speculative, because people have seldom, if ever, tested them.