“…The current advancements in machine learning technologies provide a new opportunity to remedy 334 MACHINE LEARNING TO RECLASSIFY OVERDOSE INTENTION classification problems, when utilized as a supplement to recommended changes in death scene investigation practices (Stone, Holland, Bartholow, Crosby et al, 2017;Stone, Holland, Bartholow, Logan et al, 2017). Machine learning has already begun to be used to identify living cases at risk for suicide (Colic, Richardson, Reilly, & Hasey, 2018;Kessler et al, 2017;McKernan, Lenert, Crofford, & Walsh, 2018;Ryu, Lee, Lee, & Park, 2018), paving the way for the natural extension of its use for the retrospective prediction of missed suicides among the deceased (Esty et al, 2017). Utah has one of the highest rates of undetermined deaths in the United States, at double the national rate.…”