Forensic Pharmacology offers a unique and comprehensible account of pharmacological methods and knowledge, and how to use them to solve problems in crimes from drunken driving to murder. It also deals with negligence in giving drugs, and adverse reactions to drugs. The text is enlivened by cases from the literature and from the authors experience. Appendices give detailed examples of pharmacological problems and their solutions; tables and equations for alcoholcalculations; and data for medicines encountered in forensic work. Experts do not always understand what lawyers want of them, and lawyers fail to appreciate that experts in medicine and pharmacology may not be experts in the law. The section entitled legal considerations was written by a barrister with wide experience of using expert evidence and explains clearly the legal principles. It also contains some helpful hints on how to deal with court procedure and adversarial lawyers.
Part 1:: General considerations; Drugs, their behaviour and their effects on the body; Analyses of drugs and drug concentrations in blood and other body compartments; Legal considerations; Part 2:: Specific problems; Effects of drugs on behaviour; Effects of drugs on the victims of crime; Negligence and medicines; Part 3:: Specific drugs of forensic importance; Ethanol; Benzodiazepines; Insulin; Potassium chloride and other potassium salts; The antipsychotic drugs:: phenothiazines, butyrophenones, and other agents; Opiates and related drugs; Vaccines; Paracetemol; Anabolic androgens (anabolic steroids); Appendix A Pharmacokinetic calculations; Appendix B Detailed aspects of measurement of ethanol and calculations based on ethanol concentration; Appendix C Brief details of some drugs of forensic importance; References; Index;
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