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While not conventional, this study aims to determine the use of bladder washes as alternative specimens in postmortem forensic toxicology. Comprehensive drug and alcohol analysis was performed on blood, urine, vitreous humor, and bladder wash samples. Control studies consisted of matched bladder wash and urine samples for comparison. Authentic applicability studies were performed on bladder wash samples in cases where only blood or no urine samples were available. Bladder wash testing via the routine urine methodology was shown to have the appropriate sensitivity and specificity to serve as an alternative specimen. Specificity of the applicability studies was further improved when comparisons were corrected by evaluating individual analytes jointly with their related parent drug or metabolites. Individual and corrected sensitivity and specificity rates of above 99% were typically observed in both comparisons against urine and blood paired samples. 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