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[...] another UF researcher, Mark Gold, chief of the division of addiction medicine at UF's McKnight Brain Institute, found that the geographic regions marked by the biggest increases in cocaine-related death rates include college towns like Gainesville and Tallahassee and wealthy enclaves like Sarasota, Naples and Melbourne. The circumstances surrounding Perry's death are common, says Gary Martin, associate dean for student wellness at Lynn University in Boca Raton and a homicide detective who investigates drug-related deaths for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
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The trend began to reveal itself about five years ago - in centrifuges and under microscopes - at the University of Florida's Forensic Toxicology Laboratory. Each year, the lab assists seven Florida medical examiners' offices with about 3,000 cases, helping to identify toxic substances in bodies as medical examiners perform autopsies.
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