FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY - Bio Medical Forensics

Analysis of Drugs From Paired Hair and
Urine Samples—Casting a Broader Net of
Drug Detection in Pre-Employment
Specimens
Relationship Between In Utero Methadone
Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes
Stability of Many Prevalent Drugs Found
in Postmortem Bloods From Medical
Examiner Cases
Postmortem Tissue Distribution of
Olanzapine and Citalopram in an
Overdose
Distribution of Quetiapine in Postmortem
Specimens
The Distribution of Gamma-
Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB) in Both Ante
and Postmortem Specimens, of a Single
Fatality After Long-Term Storage
James A. Bourland, PhD*, Patrick Carpenter, MS, MA,
and Ted Johnson, BS, American Medical Laboratories,
Western Operations, 4230 Burnham Avenue, Suite 212, Las
Vegas, NV
Robin E. Evans, BA*, Chemistry and Drug Metabolism
Section, Intramural Research Program, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD; Handree E. Jones, PhD,
Center for Addiction in Pregnancy, JHBMC, Baltimore,
MD; Angela Shin, MA, and Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD,
Chemistry and Drug Metabolism Section, Intramural
Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Baltimore, MD
Michael Wagner, BA, BS, MS, PA*, and Harold E.
Schueler, PhD, Broward County Medical Examiners
Office, 5301 SW 31st Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Erica L. Horak, BS*, Joseph A. Felo, DO, and Amanda J.
Jenkins, PhD, Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office, 11001
Cedar Road, Cleveland, OH
Amanda J. Jenkins, PhD*, and Rachel D. Fontenot, BS,
The Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner, 11001 Cedar
Road, Cleveland, OH
Laureen J. Marinetti, MS*, Bradford R. Hepler, PhD,
Daniel S. Isenschmid, PhD, and Sawait Kanluen, MD,
Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office, 1300 East
Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI
Zolpidem Intoxication Nancy B. Wu Chen PhD*, Edmund R. Donoghue MD, Aldo
J. Fusaro, DO, Nancy L. Jones, MD, Barry D. Lifschultz,
MD, Jennifer L. Jakalski, BS, Kathleen A. Mittel, BS, and
James R. Reich Jr., MLT, Office of the Medical Examiner,
Medications, Strange Intoxications, and
Violent Crime: Psychiatric, Toxicology,
and Legal Considerations
Fentanyl Related Deaths on the Rise in
North Carolina
Driving Under the Influence of
Methadone—Experiences From Berne,
Switzerland
New Studies on the Pharmacokinetics of
Ethanol
Blockade of Physiological and Subjective
Effects of Smoked Marijuana by the First
CB1-Selective Cannabinoid Receptor
Antagonist SR141716
Cook County, 2121 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL
Michael Welner, MD*, The Forensic Panel, 224 West 30th
Street, New York, NY; Ashraf Mozayani, PhD*, Harris
County (TX) Crime Laboratory, Houston, TX; H. Thomas
Rosano, PhD*, Albany Medical Center, Department of
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Albany, NY; and Kevin
K. Takata, JD*, Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office, Honolulu,
HI
Kenneth S. Snell, MD*, Ruth E. Winecker, PhD, and Jeri
D. Ropero-Miller, PhD, Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner, Chapel Hill, NC
Werner Bernhard, DSc*; Beat Aebi, PhD, and Manfred
Hochmeister, MD; Institute of Legal Medicine, University
of Berne, Buehlstrasse 20, CH- 3012 Berne, Switzerland
Alan Wayne Jones, PhD, DSc, Department of Forensic
Toxicology, University Hospital, 581 85 Linköping, Sweden
Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD, David A. Gorelick, MD, PhD,
Stephen J. Heishman, PhD, Kenzie L. Preston, PhD,
Richard A. Nelson, MD, and Eric T. Moolchan, MD,
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Research
Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore,
MD; and Richard A. Frank, MD, PhD, Sanofi-Synthelabo,
Inc., Malvern, PA
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