Full Description
Toxicological Aspects of Drug-Facilitated Crimes provides readers with an overview of the field of DFC: its history, toxicological effects, analysis, interpretation of results, the roles that age, gender and race may play, and clinical presentations of these drugs. The most commonly used drugs in DFC are addressed (alcohol, cannabis, MDMA, and cocaine), as well as an emerging range of pharmaceuticals (benzodiazepines, hypnotics, sedatives, neuroleptics, histamine H1-antagonists, or anesthetics), which are becoming more widely used, but are more difficult to detect. Edited by a world-renowned expert in the field of Forensic and Analytical Toxicology, Pascal Kintz, this book investigates toxicants of emerging concern and brings together a number of experts in the field to address the most recent discoveries on DFC toxicology.
Contents
ForewordChapter 1: Historical Aspects of Drug-Facilitated CrimesChapter 2: Epidemiology of Drug-Facilitated CrimesChapter 3: Drugs in DFC - Pharmacological AspectsChapter 4: Ethanol and DFCChapter 5: Memory Impairment after DFCChapter 6: Cannabis and DFCChapter 7: Drugs involved in DFC - Analytical Aspects (Blood and Urine)Chapter 8: Drugs involved in DFC - Analytical Aspects (Hair)Chapter 9: Case Reports in Drug-Facilitated Sexual AssaultsChapter 10: The specific Problem of Children and Old People in DFCChapter 11: Clinical Aspects of DFC
