Forensic toxicology & pharmacology
Alcohol and drug testing. Laboratory methods. Scientific interpretation. Explore the evidence—and understand the limits of what a result can establish.
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A treatment can appear more often in severe cases because clinicians select it when patients are already sicker. That possibility matters when a poisoning study compares people…
Read articleHospital records describe the people who reach a hospital. To understand deaths across a city, a surveillance study also needs records of people who die outside that…
Read articleDuring a poisoning admission, an improving laboratory marker can coexist with persistent breathing problems. Serial results and imaging answer different questions about what happened. What the two…
Read articleDuring burst suppression, an EEG alternates between bursts of electrical activity and intervals of marked suppression. When bursts differ across the two hemispheres, the recording before anesthesia…
Read articleIn a randomized placebo-controlled study of adults in intensive care after organophosphate poisoning, the delirium and ventilation outcomes told different stories. What changed in the study Vijayakumar…
Read articleA treatment given after a prolonged seizure can be studied for effects on later tissue injury. That question differs from whether it stops the seizure or prevents…
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How laboratories separate, identify, confirm, and measure drugs, alcohols, and other compounds.
22 evidence guidesHow collection, preservation, storage, and biological matrix affect what a result can mean.
15 evidence guidesPrinciples and limitations of blood, breath, and postmortem alcohol and volatile analysis.
5 evidence guidesScreening, confirmation, metabolites, emerging substances, and drug-specific interpretation.
17 evidence guidesThe controls, performance studies, documentation, and review practices behind reliable testing.
18 evidence guidesAbsorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, timing, effects, and evidentiary limits.
10 evidence guidesSpecimen selection, redistribution, decomposition, and the special limits of death investigation.
3 evidence guides
Attorney. Forensic toxicologist.
Okorie Okorocha, J.D., M.S., M.S. brings legal training and graduate education in forensic science and forensic toxicology to the interpretation of complex evidence.
This library connects analytical methods, specimen quality, and pharmacology with the questions that matter in a scientific review.
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