This handbook is designed for professionals who deal with problems related to drugs and drug abuse. It contains detailed discussions of drug-related issues in criminalistics, pathology and toxicology. Impairment testing and the pharmacokinetics of abused drugs are examined in detail, as is the field of workplace drug testing, the use of alternate testing matrices, drugs in sport, addiction medicine, and drug-related medical emergencies. Drug Abuse Handbook also includes flow algorithms and decision trees for post-mortem toxicology and simple calculations to estimate alcohol levels. For ease of use, this book is extensively referenced and has a detailed index. Appendices provide common terms and abbreviations, references for post-mortem toxicology, sample calculations and normal heart weights.

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This handbook is intended to serve the user as a handy quick reference and not as a complete drug information resource. It does not include information on every therapeutic agent available. It covers commonly used drugs and is specifically designed to present certain important aspects of drug data in a more concise format than is generally found in medical literature or product material supplied by manufacturers.

Includes extensive reference book details information on adverse drug reactions, covering prescribed, over-the-counter and herbal medicines, foods, drinks, pesticides and some drugs of abuse.

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This pamphlet is produced in partnership with the Privy Council Office, the Dept. of Health, the Home Office, the Health Education Authority, the Scottish Office and the Health Education Board for Scotland, the Welsh Office, and the Northern Ireland Health and Safety Agency. It deals with drug-related problems at work and refers to the use of illegal drugs and the misuse, whether deliberate or unintentional, of prescribed drugs and substances such as solvents.

Covering a wide range of research currently being done in drug analysis, Drug Testing Technology: Assessment of Field Applications compares and evaluates various methods used to determine abused drugs taken by individuals. Controversies associated with various methods, including urine analysis and hair analysis, are examined. Contributors from a wide diversity of disciplines offer advanced knowledge, encompassing work that is technical as well as markedly philosophical. Chapters provide overviews of drug incorporation into hair; the use of hair analysis for compliance measurement in the use of anti-epileptic medications; and the application of drug testing to the psychiatric treatment of substance abuse disorders. This book presents the epidemiology of drug use, evaluates races and sexes in reference to bias, correlates bias to specialised field settings, examines implications of community surveys and compares and contrasts hair and urine sample.

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A basic book written by Commander Stockley, a Metropolitan Police officer with over 20 years experience of drugs investigations. The book is fully illustrated with over 160 colour photographs and gives up-to-date details on: what each drug looks like, how it is taken, possible dangers and effects and associated paraphernalia and effects.

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Crimes of drug-facilitated sexual assault are reaching alarming numbers throughout the world. While such drugs as Rohypnol and GHB have become known as "date-rape drugs", many other drugs have or could be used in the same manner. This book educates the reader in how drugs are used as weapons in committing sexual assaults - and is written for all those involved in the investigation of these crimes (forensic scientists, law enforcement, lawyers, toxicologists and medical professionals) and focuses on the idea of teamwork for a successful investigation. The first portion of the handbook deals with the history of drug-facilitated crimes and provides an overview of how these crimes have changed over the years. The next portion of the handbook addresses the difficulties surrounding the investigation of these crimes, including an in-depth discussion on the drugs and drug classes used, the effects of these drugs on the victim, delays in reporting of the crime, details on the type of person that uses drugs as a means of sexually assaulting an individual, and difficulties in investigating the suspect. Finally, the handbook outlines ideas and suggestions to overcome some of the difficulties encountered in these cases. Details on the collection and analysis of evidence from these crimes, strategies on law enforcement's investigation of the suspect, and keys to successfully prosecuting cases of drug-facilitated rape are provided.

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This book aims to be a straight-talking guide to drugs - hard facts, practical advice and life-saving tactic. The approach and content of this book have been discussed in depth with parents and teenagers across the UK. This book contains a comprehensive drugs directory and features up-to-date information on handling drugs with care, warning signs to look out for and when to ask for help.

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This book is an authoritative account of drug abuse written for healthcare professionals. Chapters deal with opioids, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy, LSD, volatile substance abuse, performance enhancing drugs as well as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. Also included are chapters dealing with drug abuse in specific patient groups and drug abuse during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Appendices include guidelines on needle exchange schemes and on the preparation of heroin reefers along with a glossary of street drug names and sources of further information.

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This is the only comprehensive text, which addresses all of the issues involved with the forensic investigation and prosecution of clandestine laboratories in a non technical manner. Although it explains how to identify controlled substances (explosives and explosive mixtures as well as drugs) that are being manufactured and the methods used in the manufacturing process, it does not describe how to manufacture them. The first section describes how to identify a clandestine lab and the physical characteristics they have in common. The second section covers how to process the site; while the third section covers the analytical techniques that can be used in the laboratory to analyse the evidence. The last two sections discuss opinions determined from the evidence and the presentation of the evidence in court. The book also provides a list of references and articles about controlled substances.

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The third edition of this book continues to provide a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the pathology, toxicology, and pharmacology of commonly abused drugs. As in previous editions, the focus remains on the investigation of drug-related deaths and on practical consequences to the detection of drug abuse. It covers in detail the clinical consequences of drug usage and provides the latest information on clinical aspects of drug abuse. This well-written, extensively referenced resource supplies a mixture of clinical information and pathology findings. Chapters include cocaine, natural stimulants, synthetic stimulants, hallucinogens, opiates, dissociative anaesthetics, anabolic steroids and solvents. For each drug, topics include incidence, epidemiology, history, cultivation and manufacture, drug constants, routes of ingestion, metabolism, problems of test interpretation, tissue disposition, external markers, toxicity by organ system, sources, mechanisms of action, chemistry, post-mortem tissue measurements, illicit manufacture, classification, medical consequences and interpreting blood and tissue concentrations.

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This book gives practical information relating to the analysis of controlled substances. This includes how to carry out the analysis, interpreting the results, and how to use the results as evidence in court or for drugs intelligence purposes. The major drugs of abuse are addressed and for each there is a description, a presumptive test, TLC, instrumental methods and data analysis.

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Another in the Ellis Horwood Series in forensic science, this book is a self-teaching guide for forensic chemistry labs and law enforcement agencies. It can be used as a text by new students and as a refresher course for the practising chemist. It covers the basic concepts of many analytical methods, both non-instrumental and instrumental, and includes a section on reporting results for use in court. A suite of videos will be available to complement the book. They cover 6 important analytical techniques and show the basic use of equipment and techniques necessary to analyse drugs.

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The Forensic Pharmacology of Drugs of Abuse reviews the five main classes of drugs of abuse that figure prominently in forensic work: alcohol; the benzodiazepines; the opioids including heroin; the stimulants including amphetamines and cocaine; and cannabis. Drawing upon clinical case histories it offers a definitive account of the pharmacological, pharmacokinetic and toxicological properties of the most common drugs of abuse that require expert evidence in court. The highly organised text contains accounts of actual cases, includes monographs detailing the properties of each drug and constitutes a comprehensive guide to legal issues relating to drugs of abuse. This is an authoritative book on the forensic application of pharmacology and toxicology of drugs of abuse. It provides an invaluable guide for both legal and medical practitioners and especially for all those in the field of pharmacology and toxicology.

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The author of this book spent nearly 30 years in the UK Forensic Science Service serving ten of those years as head of the Drugs Intelligence Unit. His book provides a chemical background to the legal controls on drugs of abuse. Apart from the Act itself, the book also deals with certain aspects of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations.
There is detailed coverage of “designer drugs” and the generic legislation that was introduced to tackle them. The more recent addition of 25 “Ecstasy”-like substances are covered in depth. The significance to the legislation of terms such as salt, base, ester, ether, derivative, homologue and isotope are described, and the text is supplemented by 23 Tables and over 80 chemical structures.
Although primarily aimed at forensic scientists, it should also be of interest to police, customs officers, lawyers and government departments.

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This book details the remarkable advances that have been made in scientific research on cannabis and assesses the medical uses of the drug, and the risks such use may entail.

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This reference work provides pharmacologists and toxicologists with information on 28 widely-used herbal medicines from Ma Huang and the Ephedra alkaloids to aloe, echinacea, and cranberry. Using reliable, peer-reviewed data, the writers describe in detail the pharmacology and toxicology of each herb, including clinical and pathological findings. Information is gathered from clinical trials and case reports of adverse effects, pharmacokinetics, methods of chemical and biofluid analysis, and the known pharmacological and toxicological effects arranged by organ, organ system, or therapeutic/toxicologic effect. The authors also discuss the history and traditional uses, current promoted uses, dosage forms, potential drug interactions, and regulatory issues of the herbal products.

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