Forensic Medicine and Toxicology: Drug Addiction

Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Accident and suicide are the two main epidemiological categories of poisoning; at home and at work are the two main places for it to occur; and clinically it may conveniently be classed as acute or chronic. Availability plays an important part in the incidence of poisoning and in the choice of agent by a person intending suicide, in the substance swallowed by a child, and in the toxic agent aff...

Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

This work is an addition to the many useful works forming the "Medical Series" being issued by the Messrs. Griffin for practitioners and students, and is produced by them in a pleasant type and on good paper. We presume Dr. Mann's Lectures are the original basis of this work, as it partakes so much of the very necessary compression needed by such a subject for such a purpose. To treat the subje...

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Drug analysis for control purposes in forensic toxicology, workplace testing, sports medicine and related areas.

This MiniReview describes the present guidelines for drug testing in forensic toxicology, workplace testing and doping control of athletes. Such guidelines are established to secure the chain of custody, from sample collection through analysis with screening, confirmation methods and interpretation, to the final report of results. Specifications for good laboratory practice, facility maintenanc...