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Toxicology AlcoholTesting for
Alcohol Role of
Toxicologist
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detects and identifies drugs and poisons in body fluids,
tissues, and organs
What is a forensic toxicologist?
1,2
the transformation of substances in the body in order to facilitate
elimination from the body
What is metabolism?
1,4
For a living person, drugs orpoisons would be detected by
collection of these two samples.
What is blood and urine?
2,2
The three basic steps in the metabolism of alcohol.
What are absorption, distribution, and elimination?
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Directly proportional to blood alcohol concentration
What is the amount of alcohol exhaled in breath?
2,4
For cases in which a drug or poison has been in a person’s
system for a long period of time,this sample is collected and
analyzed
What is hair?
3,1
The administration of a breathalyzer test or collection of
blood for analysis does not violate these rights
What are 4th and 5th amendment rights?
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Two factors which influence drug-induced behavior.
What is age, tolerance of the user, physical condition of the user, and the interaction of multiple drugs?
4,2
Two factors that affect the absorption of alcohol in the
body
What are the rate of consumption, alcohol content, the amount consumed, and food present in stomach?
4,3
Type of container used to storeblood samples for the purpose
of measuring alcohol concentration
What is airtight?
4,4
Two challenges that toxicologistsFace in detecting drugs
What is the fact that drugs are found in very small amounts and that drugs are often metabolized to other
substances in the body?
5,1
two common non-drug poisonsdetected by toxicologsists
What are carbon monoxide, arsenic, lead, mercury, etc.?
5,3
Two substances that must be added to blood samples when
collected for measuring alcoholconcentration
What are anti-coagulants and preservatives?