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Poisonings that involve high doses over short periods of time.
What is acute poisoning?
Drugs that slow the normal function of the central nervous system are
What are depressants?
Refers to how much of a substance was taken.
What is dosage?
Drugs that affect a user's perceptions, thinking, self-awareness, and emotions.
What are hallucinogens?
Drugs with high potential for abuse and have some medical value with restrictions.
What are Schedule II drugs?
A condition in which higher doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect.
What is tolerance?
The type of drug that can increase feelings of alertness, suppress appetite, and is often followed by depression
What is a stimulant?
Refers to exposure through the lungs.
What is inhalation?
Refers to exposure that is intended to treat illness or relieve pain.
What is intentional exposure?
The chemical test used to detect arsenic that was the first use of toxicology in a jury trial.
What is the Marsh Test?
Drugs that increase the feelings of well being, energy, and alertness.
What are stimulants?
Drugs with a low potential for abuse and addiction and are currently acceptable for medical use.
What are Schedule IV drugs?
Drugs with no current medical use in the United State.
What are illegal drugs?
Drugs that act by suppressing the central nervous system's ability to relay pain messages to the brain.
What are narcotics?
The most poisonous biological substance known to humans.
What is Botulism?
The percentage of those in federal prisons related to drug charges.
What is greater than 50%?
The drug known to drastically change the appearance of a user including eroded teeth and body sores from scratching due to the feeling of bugs on the skin.
Consuming poison in a suicide attempt or to inflict harm or death upon others.
What is deliberate exposure?
Used in gas chambers for mass deaths.
What is hydrogen cyanide?
Known as the father of forensic toxicology.
Who is Orfila?
What are Schedule I Drugs?
In order to tell when, how much, or which drug a person has taken a forensic toxicologist must perform this.
What is confirmative testing?
Alcohol is absorbed through which of the following
What is stomach and intestines?
Most narcotics are derived from this.
What is opium poppy?
The three means by which anabolic steroids can be taken.
What is injected, absorbed through the skin, or taken orally?