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Getting Down With Okorie

Who is Okorie Okorocha, and What Does He Do? Okorie Okorocha is L.A.’s premier forensic toxicology expert witness, specializing in drug and alcohol testing, but what does that actually mean and what is a forensic toxicologist in the first place? We’ve got the low-down to help you understand the man…

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Alcohol Testing 101

Alcohol Testing: History, Methods, and Problems Alcohol testing methods have developed steadily over the last few decades. It’s almost hard to believe that just 80 years ago, testing for blood alcohol content (commonly known as BAC) relied solely on blood and urine tests, which were expensive and time consuming. History…

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The Effect of Pathology on Toxicology

Toxicology Lawyer and Pathologist Collaboration A toxicology lawyer has specialized knowledge of their field, but will often work with other forensic practitioners and legal experts. There’s overlap between these disciplines, and collaboration and communication become especially important when different parties are brought together to solve a case. Pathology is one…

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Picking the Perfect Counsel

Choosing Counsel and Toxicology Co-Counsel Choosing the right counsel for your court case can be incredibly stressful. If any aspect of your case involves substances – like drugs, alcohol, prescription medications, environmental or workplace chemicals, poisons, and so forth – you’ll also need a toxicology co-counsel to weigh in. What…

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False Positive Influencers

Forensic Toxicologist can Disprove False Positives Most of the population, including professional athletes, school teachers and even the President, will have to undergo a mandatory drug test at some point in their lives. Of this group of people, some will test positive for drugs they have not consumed due to…

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The Kitagawa Balloon Test: What the Inventors and the Earliest Validators Already Knew

By Okorie Okorocha, J.D., M.S., M.S. The Kitagawa balloon test, more precisely the Kitagawa-Wright detector-tube method, issometimes treated in courtrooms and older case files as if it were a scientificallygrounded measurement of blood-alcohol concentration. It is not. The most strikingfeature of the historical record is that the people best positioned…

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Why Don’t Microbes Ferment Blood in Living People?

Your veins are full of warm, sugary, nutrient-rich liquid. So why isn’t it bubbling like a beer vat? Here’s a thought that should keep you up at night: your body contains roughly five liters of warm, slightly salty, sugar-and-protein-rich liquid, kept at a steady 37°C. To a microbe, that sounds…

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What the Largest U.S. Government’s Drugged-Driving Study Actually Found

When prosecutors, the press, or a juror’s intuition tell you that “drugs cause crashes,” there is one study they should be made to confront: the 2015 NHTSA case-control study by Richard Compton and Amy Berning, Drug and Alcohol Crash Risk (DOT HS 812 117). It remains the largest, most carefully…

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