A person is discovered dead. Nearby is an empty prescription bottle, filled the day before, having contained 30 Lortab, and an empty fifth size bottle of whiskey. During autopsy, the stomach is found to contain pill residue confirming ingestion of the Lortab. Does the autopsy stop there or contenue to examine all other organs including the brain?

I don't know many of the organs have to be examined, but I do know they cannot stop at the resude in the stomache. There has to be a toxicology report verifying the amount of drugs that was in the system. Even though there was an empty bottle of medication and partial empty bottle of alcohol, doesn't mean that this person ingested them all.

The medical examiner would most likely keep going. Just because they found those things doesn't mean that the person had taken them. It could have been someone else you never know. That person could have died from a sudden heart attack for all they know. Although the cause of that person's death was most likely from the Lortab and whiskey.

yes, but if they found them in the vic they would most likely keep going, but they probably died from complications from the medicine and alcohol being combined.

Clearly it seems like a suicide but I would continue to exam everything and watch for the reactions the body went through as it was shocked with this huge does of Lortab and whiskey. It's not often you find a dead body with pills and whiskey near by.