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Provides standards for testing specimen, quality assurance and quality control, the Custody and Control Form, personnel and the reporting of results.
What is U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)?
A habit-forming drug that, while not itself addictive, may lead to the use of other addictive drugs.
What is Gateway Drugs?
The consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is Binge Drinking?
The time that a drug can be detected in a biological sample above a specified cut-off for the test being performed.
What is Window of Detection?
A crime of offense of driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs, which includes recreational and prescribed drugs, to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.
What is Driving Under the Influence (DUI)?
A process for maintaining control of and accountability for each specimen from the time it is collected to the time of disposal.
What is Chain of Custody?
A document of paper trail showing the seizure, custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of physical and electronic evidence of a human specimen test.
What is Custody and Control Form (CCF)?
A device that police officers use for measuring the amount of alcohol in a driver's breath.
What is Breathalyzer?
Commonly used as a metric of alcohol intoxication for legal or medical purposes.
What is Blood Alcohol Content, Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)?
An examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.
What is Postmortem?
Those substances involved in civil or criminal legal cases.
What is Forensic Specimens?
Refers to the mixing other of an inferior and sometimes harmful quality with food or drink intended to be sold; as a result, the food or drink becomes impure and unfit for human consumption.
What is Adulteration?
Composed of materials ingested during the time the infant spends in the uterus; earliest stool of a mammalian infant.
What is Meconium?
Testing specimens for poisons or drugs of abuse in legal cases.
What is Forensic Toxicology?
A substance formed in or necessary for metabolism.
What is Metabolite?
Any group closely related compounds, that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis.
What is Cannabinoid?
A drug with morphine like effects, derived from opium.
What is Opiates?
A strong CNS (central nervous system) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly used to treat ADHD and obesity.
What is Methamphetamine?
The practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance.
What is Blood Doping?
A drug screen that can estimate the amount of drug in a specimen.
What is Quantitative Drug Screening?
Used to detect the presence of a drug in the body; a blood or urine sample may be used. Urine is the best for this type of screening.
What is Qualitative Drug Screening?
A narcotic analgesic to control moderate to severe pain and treat opioid dependence.
What is Buprenorphine?
Also known as PCP or angel dust, is a dissociative drug; developed in the 1950's as an intravenous anesthetic.
What is Phencyclidine?
An opioid medication and it can treat moderate to severe pain; sold under the name Dolophine.
What is Methadone?
Narcotic analgesics used to relieve moderate to severe pain; frequently used for pain from myocardial infarction and during labor.
What is Morphine?