
The Drug Expert
A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings
Description
Key Features
- Focuses on important topics for the consulting pharmacologist, including prescription, over-the-counter and illegal drugs and their effects on criminal and civil proceedings
- Details the “how-to” aspects of being an expert witness in pharmacology by presenting real-life cases and effective tips and experiences
- Includes several appendices, such as a sample letter of engagement and fee schedule, a litigation report, a consulting invoice and valuable resources
Readership
Industry, academic and government pharmacologists, pharmacology post-doc students, pharmacists and toxicologists. A secondary audience includes those in the legal profession (lawyers, district attorneys, judges and law students) who may consult a pharmacologist
Table of Contents
1. What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: Our Drugged Society
2. A Parent’s Worst Nightmare: Drug-Induced Psychosis and Deadly Police Response
3. Show Me the Money: Epilepsy Drugs and the Four Million Dollar Embezzlement
4. The Power of the Poppy: Opioid Overdose and the Treatment of Pain
5. Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: Making Meth and Urine Drug Tests
6. Hairs of the Innocent: The Detection of Marijuana in a Child Custody Case
7. Firewater: Alcohol Abuse and Tribal Homicide
8. Death at the Crossing: Trace Cocaine and the Denial of Benefits
9. Big Little Secrets: Prescription Errors, Generic Drugs, and Drugs Affecting Blood Alcohol
10. Through the Looking-Glass: A Bank-Robbery Witness and Alleged Victim on Drugs
11. I Want a New Drug: Fake Marijuana, Designer Stimulants and Hallucinogens
12. Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Cancer Chemotherapy and Probate
13. Speed Kills: Two Cases of Methamphetamine Abuse and Homicide
14. The Truth Shall Not Set You Free: A Drug-Induced Confession
15. Snake Eyes: Gambling with the Adverse Effects of Ambien®
16. Reefer Madness: Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana
17. A Visit to the Dram Shop: Tequila Shots and a Traffic Fatality
18. The Devil Made Me Do It: Rape after Prison Release of an Untreated Schizophrenic
19. Dead Men Tell No Tales: Drugs in a Drowned, a Decayed, and a Dumpster Corpse
20. Death Be Not Proud: The Pharmacology of Lethal Drug ExecutionsAppendies
A. Listing of U.S. Medical Schools and Contact Information
B. Sample Drug Expert Letter of Engagement
C. Sample Drug Expert Invoice
D. Excerpt of a Drug Expert Litigation Report
E. Excerpt of a Drug Expert Deposition
F. Excerpt of a Court Transcript Cross-Examination
G. Sample of a Drug Toxicology Report
H. Sample of Medical Records used by a Drug Expert
I. Sample of Pharmacy Records used by a Drug Expert
J. Alcohol Charts for Males and Females
K. Excerpt of a Daubert Motion
L. Sample Listing of Drug Tests Available at a Commercial Lab
M. Sample Retrograde Calculation of BAC
Product details
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: January 8, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128000489
- eBook ISBN: 9780128005828