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Drugs and Poisons Study Guide
1. How would you analyze a mixture?
2. When did forensic toxicology start being used?
3. Is alcohol a depressant?
4. What can lead poisoning cause?
5. How do breathalyzers work today?
6. What is the legal blood alcohol level for adults over 21 in the US?
7. What is retention factor?
8. If a cop does a spot test on a suspected powder found in a car, can he prove what drug it is? Y?N
9. What is synergism?
10. What does it mean if your blood alcohol level is close to, but not over, 0.08%?
11. What is indicated by carbon monoxide poisoning?
12. What kinds of drugs belong to this schedule on the Controlled Substance Act that have no accepted
medical use?
13. How is toxicity determined?
14. When was the earliest recorded use of poison?
15. What must a substance have to be classified as acutely toxic?
16. What is an example of a drug that is not a narcotic?
17. What kind of test can identify a drug when a spot test comes back positive?
18. How does chronic exposure to toxins occur?
19. What is a hallucinogen?
20. What technique would you use to separate components of a mixture?
21. What federal agency is responsible for drug enforcement?
22. If a body at the morgue had a burnt almond odor coming from it, this would indicate what kind of
poisoning?
23. What drug is the most similar to the unknown drug on right at the end of the questions?
24. How are lethal doses (LD50) determined?
25. What percentage of traffic deaths in the US are alcohol related?
26. Which organ mainly detoxifies drugs?
27. 75% of the evidence that is examined in forensics labs in the US is related to what?
28. What things affect BAC? Weight is one thing, what are the others?
29. What are some common sources of lead?
30. What does a stimulant do to the central nervous system (CNS)?
31. What are over the counter drugs considered to be?
32. What is a drug that is not a hallucinogen?
33. What is alcohol considered to be?
34. What is a spot test?
35. What is mass spectrometry?
36. Who is considered to be the father of toxicology and wrote the first book on toxicology?
37. How can a breath test determine BAC?
38. Can a licensed physician prescribe an illicit drug?
39. Is a spot test only a preliminary test?
40. Can spot tests give false positives?
41. The concentration of alcohol in someone’s breath is = to, less than, greater than, the BAC of person.
42. T/F: Any type of drug taken in large amounts can have toxic effects and be classified as a poison.
43. What does infrared spectroscopy analyze?
44. Is arsenic a naturally occurring substance?
45. Can gender effect blood alcohol content?
46. What can gas chromatography be used to determine?
47. When does the detoxification of alcohol from the body start for most people?
48. What is the most abused drug in America?
49. How many categories of controlled substances are there?
50. Is the concentration of alcohol in arterial blood same or different from the concentration in venous blood
during absorption?
51. T/F: Depending on the dosage, any substance could be toxic
52. What is the average rate of alcohol removal from the body?
53. Is marijuana a hallucinogen?
54. What is more toxic: arsenic or botulism?
55. What are many abused substances controlled by?
56. What is toxicology?
57. T/F: Nicotine is habitforming. stimulant and a
controlled substance.