Acronyms
“In the body”
“Poisonings”
“Drug & Alcohol Laws “
“Testing Procedures”
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This is a measurement of the amount of alcohol within a person’s blood, and is used to determine their level of intoxication. It is abbreviated as “BAC”.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration.
100
These organs filter the wastes, including drugs and toxins, from your blood.
What are the kidneys?
100
This is the term given to a poisoning that occurs very QUICKLY, such as a single dose of cyanide.
What is acute poisoning?
100
This is the total number of “schedules” in which the government classifies drugs, according to their potential for abuse and medical usage.
What is five?
100
Walking a straight line, saying the alphabet backwards, and standing on one leg while you touch your nose are all examples of this type of test for intoxication.
What is What is a field sobriety test?
200
2.This Department of the U.S. Health & Human Services regulates the safety of America’s food, drugs, and many other consumer products. It is abbreviated as the “FDA”.
What is the Food and Drug Administration
200
This organ breaks down the toxins within your body, which is why alcoholics and drug abusers often get cirrhosis of this organ.
What is the liver?
200
This is the term given to a poisoning that occurs over a long period of time, such as the case of Robert Curley, whose wife killed him by putting poison in his coffee mug each morning for several months.
What is chronic poisoning?
200
This schedule of drugs includes the “worst” drugs, with the most potential for abuse and NO medical use.
What is Schedule I?
200
This is the legal BAC limit in Pennsylvania.
What is 0.08?
300
3.Abbreviated as “COD”, this is the actual medical reason for a person’s death (such as heart failure or blunt force trauma). This should not be confused with the “MOD” or Manner of Death, which would be either accidental, intentional, or natural.
What is the Cause of Death?
300
This is the most useful bodily fluid for determining the presence of drugs or toxins.
What is blood?
300
This is the type of person that usually commits poisonings because they are familiar with the victim’s daily routine and they have access to the victim.
What is an acquaintance?
300
This is the drug schedule in which cocaine is classified.
What is Schedule II?
300
These instruments estimate BAC indirectly by measuring the amount of alcohol dissolved in a person's breath .
What is a breathalyzer?
400
4. The mission of this federal agency is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States, and bring to the criminal and civil justice system those who are involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances in the U.S. It is abbreviated as the “DEA”.
What is the Drug Enforcement Administration?
400
The hair is very useful in determining a timeline for the absorption of poisons or drugs because it grows this much each month (on average).
What is a half inch?
400
This age group commonly experiences accidental poisonings due to curiosity.
What are children?
400
This is the drug schedule in which marijuana is classified.
What is What is Schedule I?
400
This is a rather “cheap and non-specific” type of test for drugs or poisons. The drug tests they administer in school are an example.
What is a presumptive test?
500
The mission of this institution is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction through research and public education. It is abbreviated as “NIDA”.
What is the National Institute on Drug Abuse?
500
This is the fluid inside your eye.
What is the vitreous humor?
500
This age group commonly experiences accidental poisonings due to drug interactions (since many of them are on a variety of medications)
What are the elderly?
500
This is the drug schedule in which heroin is classified.
What is Schedule I?
500
This is the more expensive and precise type of test that is used to confirm that an individual has been exposed to a specific type of drug or poison. The “tox screens” they perform in hospitals would be an example.
What is a confirmatory test?
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