The basics
Toxicologist role
What is to identify and quantify the presence of drugs and chemicals in blood and tissue samples?
Drug classification
What is the Classification Drug Act of 1990?
Job role
What is determining if toxins are in the victim’s system through controlled testing?
Human Performance toxicology
What is deals with the effects of alcohol and drugs on human performance and behavior?
Doping control
What is rules regarding performance enhancing drug use to protect the health and welfare of the amateur and professional athletes, to maintain a fair and even competitive standard?
Four Disciplines of Toxicology
What is death investigation toxicology, human performance toxicology, doping control, and forensic workplace drug testing?
Drug Schedules
What is potential for abuse, accepted medical use, and safety and potential for addiction?
If the body tests positive for toxins ____ happens
What is further testing to determine the type of toxin?
Human Performance toxicology pt.2
What is dealing with the medico‐legal consequences of drug and alcohol use?
Athletes can have ___ stripped away if they are found doping.
What is Olympic medals?
_____ can also be toxic/poisonous.
What is plants?
Schedule 1 drug
What is a drug with no current accepted medical use and a potential of abuse and addiction? (illegal drugs)
Several weeks/months.
What is the amount of time it takes to determine what type of drug was present in the body?
Human Performance Toxicology can include in the investigations of
What is impaired driving, vehicular assault and murder, and drug facilitated crimes?
____ has significant safety and economic consequences.
What is the use drugs by people in the work place?
A houseplant that contains calcium oxalate crystals like the ones found in kidney stones. It causes blisters and swelling in the digestive tract when eaten.
What is dumbcane?
Schedule 2 drug
What is drugs with a high potential for abuse, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence?
Accuracy, validity, and reliability.
What is factors that are essential to determining the cause and manner of death?
Testing blood and urine for the purpose of
What is to determine the timing, extent, and impairment resulting from different patterns of drug and alcohol abuse?
Workers in ____ type of positions are prohibited from the using recreational drugs and taking certain medications without a prescription.
What is safety sensitive?
Plant that contains aconitine; causes muscle weakness, tingling, numbness and arrhythmia.
What is wolfsbane?
Schedule 5 drug
What is a drug with a low potential for abuse or risk?
Potential drug overdose cases
What is when all eyes are on the toxicologist?
Human Performance Toxicology is also called
What is psychomotor performance?
To enforce these standards requires ____
What is random drug testing?