Types of Toxicology
Post Mortem Toxicology happens during this event, led by a medical examiner or coroner.
What is an autopsy?
This drug schedule has the lowest potential for abuse.
What is Schedule V (5)?
True or False: Alcohol is not a controlled substance, but it is still a drug that has regulations.
What is True?
Forensic toxicologists perform analysis of drugs in biological samples, typically either (or both) of these two bodily fluids.
What are blood and urine?
[Half-credit available to getting only one of these.]
The most publicly scrutinized type of toxicology tends to be this, especially regarding unexpected celebrity deaths.
What is Post Mortem Toxicology?
Confusingly, marijuana is in this drug schedule in the US.
What is Schedule I?
This is the type of alcohol that humans can digest.
What is ethanol?
One of the oldest known poisons in history, this element is nearly tasteless & odorless, and used to be found in a lot of household "killers" (like for insects, rodents, and weeds).
What is arsenic?
These are the three types of workplace drug testing.
What are pre-employment, random, and for-cause?
[Partial credit available]
These are the three factors on which drug schedules are based (supposedly).
What are the following?
1) Potential for substance abuse.
2) Accepted medical uses.
3) Safety / potential for addiction.
[Partial credit allowed for partially correct or incomplete guesses.]
This testable concept helps determine the severity of an alcohol-related driving violation/charge.
What is BAC (blood alcohol concentration)?
In human performance toxicology, scientists try to determine the ______, _______, and ________ resulting from different patterns of drug/alcohol use.
What are timing, extent, and impairment?
[Partial credit available]
Sports require this type of toxicology.
What is doping control?
Fentanyl is on this US drug schedule.
What is Schedule II (2)?
This is the most common, non-invasive way to test a driver's presumptive BAC that doesn't involve them attempting to walk in a straight line.
What is a breathalyzer?
The job of a toxicologist is to ________ & __________ the presence of drugs in bodily fluids and tissue samples.
What are "identify" and "quantify" (or synonyms of those)?
[Half-credit available for giving only one of these]
Human Performance Toxicology usually involves investigations of crimes in which at least one ______________ was involved. (Think general.)
What is a vehicle?
[Half-credit if they only name a specific type of vehicle.]
Xanax is on this US drug schedule.
What is Schedule IV (4)?
A DWI in NY state means this BAC.
What is .08?
There are rules in sporting events regarding performance enhancing drug use, in order to protect ___________ and to maintain __________.
What are "health/welfare of athletes" and "a fair/competitive standard?" (Or something akin to those)
[Half-credit available to those who only get one.]