Postmortem Toxicology of Abused Drugs considers the role of
toxicology in the investigation of homicide, suicide, accident,
natural death, and overdose. It gives practical insights and case reviews on conducting toxicology tests and completing toxicology reports. It explains
chain of custody; specimen collection and security; sampling of blood, urine, bile, and
vitreous humor; and the selection of
post-mortem specimens. Analyzing various testing procedures, the
book covers simple chemical tests, microdiffusion tests, chromatography, spectroscopy, and more.
