By Richard A Stripp
Goals to introduce scholars to uncomplicated ideas of forensic toxicology and the function of toxins in forensic technology. This e-book emphasises at the universal medicinal drugs and poisons which are encountered via a practising forensic toxicologist and the method of choosing their medicolegal function in setting up the reason for dying and affliction.
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The following is a sampling of the types of questions that the forensic toxicologist might be asked by medical, legal, or law enforcement professionals: ● Was the driver intoxicated at the time of a car crash? ● Was a defendant under the influence of PCP (angel dust) when he shot and killed two acquaintances? ● Was cocaine-induced psychosis a likely explanation for a person’s bizarre and violent behavior? ● Was alcohol involved when a person fell down a flight of stairs? ● (In the case of a death in a fire) Was the victim burned?
Arsenic compounds are primarily absorbed via the respiratory tract (inhaled) or orally. Once it is consumed, the majority (greater than 90%) of the arsenic is absorbed into the bloodstream, where it is then transported to the targets of its toxicity. The mechanism by which arsenic produces its effect is by combining chemically with sulfhydryl groups on proteins, such as enzymes, and thereby inactivating them. 1 In this photograph taken in Peru, native dark-colored elemental arsenic is embedded in light-colored quartz crystals.
When Napoleon became ill in 1820, he was certain that he was being poisoned by a growing conspiracy. However, popular belief holds that it was moldy wallpaper that may have released a poisonous gas, or perhaps medicines that he was consuming, that contributed to Napoleon’s illness. By the nineteenth century, poisoning was no longer a trade practiced exclusively by and against nobility—it was readily available to anyone with a motive. Now, poison for profit had a new lure: life insurance. Poison for profit was at an all-time high and no one could be certain how many fell victim to these acts and were simply buried with their secret.