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Forensic Toxicology and detecting drug abuse by High School eLearning. This talks about all the different types of drugs. There is many different types of drugs.
Forensic testing for drugs of abuse has become extremely popular. It is a great tool in determining recent past drug use. The importance of hair analysis depends on he ability to identify drugs. If the hair is not cut, it may be easy to obtain a second sample. Hair analysis is a good substitute for a urine drug test. This article goes into detail about how hair analysis is used in forensic toxicology. It also talks about cases with hair analysis.
Toxicology is the testing of drugs. However, sometimes when you test for drugs there could be a false positive. Urine drug test screen for many different things. They screen for alcohol, amphetamines, marijuana, cocaine and narcotics. There is many things that can effect this test they are ibuprofen, poppy seeds, hemp seeds and tonic water. This article goes in great length about how they all affect drug testing. These are many things toxicologist have to look out for and test.
If you click on the link you will see the info-graphic. This info-graphic gives more information to what a forensic toxicologist is. The average salary for a forensic toxicologist is $34k - 95k. A fun fact about toxicology is that Greeks were the first forensic toxicologist. This info-graphic also goes in detail about the degrees you can get and it has other fun facts.
Forensic toxicology deals with the investigation of toxic substances or poisonous products. Forensic toxicology combines chemistry, pathology and biochemistry. Forensic toxicology deals with the way substances are absorbed and how they are distributed or eliminated in the body. It studies the drug effects of the body and where they occur at. This article also talks about how samples are obtained for testing. The two major types of testing are blood maples and hair samples.
Toxicologist study the safety of the and biological effect of drugs. They also study the substance of living organisms. Toxicologist also determine harmful effects and doges that cause those effects. They mostly spend planning and conducting experiments. They then create report or recommendations. To work as a toxicologist you have to ave an undergraduate degree in toxicology or a related field. You also have to have plenty of lab experience. Most toxicologist work in animal facilities or laboratories.