FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY - Bio Medical Forensics

The Role of the Forensic Expert in the
Discovery Deposition: Communication is
Key
Discovery Issues: Deposing the Forensic
Toxicologist
A Rapid Increase in Fentanyl-Related
Deaths in Detroit — A Twelve Month
Review
Two Pediatric Methadone Fatalities: Case
Reports From the Office of the Medical
Examiner, Phoenix, Arizona
Postmortem Concentrations in a Suspected
Nikethamide Death
Postmortem Redistribution of
Phenobarbital: A Rat Suicide Model
Prevalence of Diltiazem in Cocaine-
Positive Postmortem Cases in Maryland
David M. Benjamin, PhD*, 77 Florence Street, Suite 107,
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Harry L. Miles, JD*, Green, Miles, Lipton, & Fitz-Gibbon,
LLP, 77 Pleasant Street, PO Box 210, Northampton, MA
01096
Daniel S. Isenschmid, PhD*, Bradford R. Hepler, PhD,
Denice M. Teem, BS, and Carl J. Schmidt, MD, Wayne
County Medical Examiner’s Office, 1300 East Warren
Avenue, Detroit, MI 48207
Kim G. McCall-Tackett, BS*, Amy L. Lais, BS, Diane J.
Mertens-Maxham, BS, Vladimir Shvarts, MD, and Norman
A. Wade, MS, Maricopa County Medical Examiner, 701
West Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Lee M. Blum, PhD*, National Medical Services
Laboratory, 3701 Welsh Road, Willow Grove, PA 19090;
Ray Fernandez, MD, Nueces County Office of the Medical
Examiner, 2610 Hospital Boulevard, Corpus Christi, TX
78405; and Lynn McGrath, BS, and Mark C. Annand, BS,
National Medical Services Laboratory, 3701 Welsh Road,
Willow Grove, PA 19090
Vasilios Stoukas*, Telamonos 25, Anthoupoli, Peristeri,
Athens 12135, Greece; Konstantinos Prousalis, MSc,
Section of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry & Natural
Products, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras,
Patras, 26500, Greece; Ioannis Zarkadis, PhD,
Department of Biology, Medical School, University of
Patras, Patras, 26500, Greece; Manolis
Michalodimitrakis, MD, JD, Department of Forensic
Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete, PO Box
1352, Heraklion, Crete 71110, Greece; and Athanasia
Mouzaki, PhD, Laboratory Hematology & Transfusion
Medicine, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras,
26500, Greece
Rebecca A. Jufer, PhD*, Barry S. Levine, PhD, and David
R. Fowler, MD, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, 111
Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Determination of Alprazolam in Oral Fluid Sumandeep Rana, MS, Cynthia Coulter, BS, Christine M.
Moore, PhD*, Michael J. Vincent, MS, and James Soares,
PhD, Immunalysis Corporation, 829 Towne Center Drive,
General Unknown Screening of Drugs and
Toxic Compounds in Human Samples
Using a Hybrid Triple Quadrupole/Linear
Ion Trap LC/MS/MS System
Pomona, CA 91767
Tania A. Sasaki, PhD*, Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln
Centre Drive, MS 430, Foster City, CA 94404; Pierre
Marquet, PhD, Department of Pharmocology-Toxicology,
University Hospital, 2 Avenue Martin Luther King,
Limoges, 97042, France; and Joaquim Soares-Granja,
Applied Biosystems, 25 Avenue de la Baltique,
Courtaboeuf, 91943, France
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