Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you
need at an affordable price. Postmortem Toxicology of Abused Drugs considers the role of …

From the earliest times humans have utilized a wide variety of manufactured and natural
substances to treat disease [1], to facilitate religious ritual and to augment recreational …

The medical examiner's office investigates sudden, violent, unnatural, or unexpected deaths,
1–3 and the medical examiner, coroner, or pathologist is responsible for determining the …

Postmortem Toxicology addresses the various aspects of the practice of forensic postmortem
toxicology from a viewpoint of elements which must be taken into consideration for proper …

Forensic professionals, particularly medical examiners—often working through heavy
caseloads—require quick and easy access to reliable sources of information to help …

Conducting toxicology on post-mortem specimens provides a number of very significant
challenges to the scientist. The range of additional specimens include tissues such as …

New designer drugs, access to databases, and changing availability of samples for analysis
have changed the face of modern forensic toxicology in recent years. Forensic Toxicology …

Specimen selection, collection, preservation, and security place unique demands on the
postmortem forensic toxicologist. The quality of results expected from the postmortem …

Drug-related deaths encompass fatal overdoses, the medical derangements from chronic
consumption, and violent death from the alteration of normal behavioral patterns …

An oxycodone postmortem database was created from 1243 solicited cases from Medical
Examiner and Coroner (ME/C) offices in 23 states in the United States over the period from …