Toxicology, etc
The study of drugs, poisons, toxins and other substances that harm a person when used for medical, recreational or criminal purposes.
What is toxicology?
One type reduces alertness and inhibits the nervous system while the other increases alertness, elevates the heart rate and respiration.
What is a depressant and what is a stimulant?
These drugs promote cell and tissue growth and cell division and have a similar structure to testosterone.
What are Anabolic steroids?
The movement of a drug into the bloodstream after it is administered through routes such as oral, subcutaneous, intravenous and intramuscular.
What is absorption?
Proteins either inside a cell, on its surface, or embedded in its membrane where a signal molecule can bind.
What is a receptor?
Physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing intake of a drug.
What is withdrawal?
Formed in 1959, this agency protects people from any food, drug or cosmetic that contain toxic components.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
This tool is used to measure amount of alcohol consumed, and the amount is described using this term.
What is a breathalyzer and what is blood alcohol concentration?
This S is the first thing that should be done by the first officer to arrive at the scene.
What is Secure the scene?
A professional who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment.
Who is a toxicologist?
Use, manufacture and distribution of these drug types are regulated by the legal system, and a lot of them are also schedule 1 drugs and hence also fall in this category.
What is a controlled substance and what is an illicit (illegal) drug?
This drug has saved lives as it helps to reverse effects of opiod overdose.
What is Naloxone (brand name: Narcan)?
Medicine reaches tissues like muscle, fat and inflamed areas.
What is distribution?
Cells communicate with each other using these.
What are chemical signals?
Powerful craving for a drug that does not result in physical symptoms upon stopping the drug.
What is dependancy?
A law that reduces the penalties of drug use, possession and distribution for those already in federal prison.
What is the First Step Act?
This term is expressed in terms of the amount of a drug that is required to produce a specific effect, and can be used to compare drugs. For example, 5 mg of drug A relieves pain as effectively as 10 mg of drug B, so drug A is more effective.
What is potency?
This S refers to interviewing witnesses in different locations.
What is Separate the witnesses?
An expert who works with law enforcement and investigators regarding crimes, and may perform tests to identify the presence of drugs or chemicals.
Who is a forensic toxicologist?
This type is addictive, often derived from opium, and also a subtype of depressant.
What is a narcotic?
Dangerous drugs from seeds - one from castor beans and the other from apple seeds.
What is ricin and what is arsenic?
Biotransformation of pharmaceutical substances in the body so that they can be eliminated more easily.
What is metabolism?
These either stimulate or inhibit communication between neurons.
What is a neurotransmitter?
What is addiction and What is tolerance?
The type of data gathered from merely observing a crime scene - for example, presence of a white power, blood splatter, single hair, torn fabric, etc.
What is qualitative data?
This S involves identifying the crime scene and taking precautions to reduce contamination.
What is Scan the scene?
Branch of forensics that uses insects to determine time of death, or even where the death took place, among other things, all insect related.
What is forensic entomology?
This type is naturally produced in living things, while exposure to low doses of this other type can result in systemic toxicity in humans.
What is a toxin and what is a heavy metal?
This drug interferes with the body's ability to use oxygen.
What is cyanide (hydrogen cyanide)?
By-products formed when a chemical is broken down in the body.
What are metabolites?
Lipids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and proteins are all examples of these.
What are biomolecules?
Exposure to a drug resulting in adverse health effects. These two terms describe long-term exposure and short-term exposure.
What is chronic poisoning and what is acute poisoning?
This individual personally smuggles contraband across a border while this term describes a person who has a tendency to reoffend.
Who is a mule and what is recidivism?
What is quantitative data?
This S involves documenting the setting and appearance of the crime scene and this S involves using measurements and coordinates to place all items in the scene.
What is see the scene and what is sketching the scene?
The analysis of toxins in insects that are found on dead bodies.
What is forensic entomotoxicology?
LSD, Ketamine, Peyote, Magic Mushrooms and Cannabis fall under this type of drug.
What is a hallucinogen?
This drug is 80 - 100 times more potent than morphine, thus doctor's prescribe the smallest dose possible.
What is fentanyl?
Removal of drugs from the body either as a metabolite or unchanged drug via urine, sweat, saliva, tears, breast milk and stool.
What is excretion?
What is a ligand?
The degree to which something is poisonous or can cause illness.
What is toxicity?
This person might be convicted of this action to enhance their athletic performance after this other knowledgeable person is allowed to testify in their court trial.
This term describes unstable atomic nuclei that will break down and give off particles or high frequency light energy in order to become more stable.Used in forensics to examine paints, metals, gunshot residue etc. and identify types of elements present without destroying the evidence.
What is radioactive?
This S can apply different strategies to make sure that every item at the crime scene is systematically recovered, and this S ensures that everything is properly accounted for.
What is Search for evidence and what is Secure and collect evidence?