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Forensic Science Ch. 6 Toxicology

Forensic Science Ch. 6 Toxicology 100 200 400 300 400 ToxicologyAlcohol Testing for Alcohol Role of Toxicologist 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

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Forensic Science

Ch. 6 Toxicology

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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?

1,3

Common field test used to Detect the use of alcohol

What is the breathalyzer?

1,4

For a living person, drugs orpoisons would be detected by

collection of these two samples.

What is blood and urine?

2,1

the most heavily abused drug inthe U.S.

What is alcohol?

2,2

The three basic steps in the metabolism of alcohol.

What are absorption, distribution, and elimination?

2,3

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?

3,2

Two processes in which alcoholIs eliminated from the body

What are oxidation and excretion?

3,3

Blood alcohol concentration usedas a legal measure of drunk

driving in the U.S.

What is 0.08?

3,4

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?

4,1

tests that definitively confirm the identity of a poison or drug

What are confirmation tests?

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.?

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Where oxidation of alcohol occurs in the body.

What is the liver?

5,3

Two substances that must be added to blood samples when

collected for measuring alcoholconcentration

What are anti-coagulants and preservatives?

5,4

Once a drug or poison isdetected, the toxicologist faces

this challenge.

What is determining the toxicity of the drug or poison?