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Drug Trends And Prevalence

Drug trends are strangely similar to fashion trends, with certain drugs being more popular at different times than others (for example increased methamphetamine use of the west coast, while more prevalent oxycodone use on the east coast), experimentation with newer designer drugs and periods of increased abuse. In this chapter,…

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What Are Police Field Drug Test Kits

Police Field Drug Test Kits are similar to instant soup; each different drug has its own pre-prepared sachet, all that the officer has to do is to add a small sample of the drug in question to the bag, break the two phials inside and look for a color change….

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The Reliability Of Gunshot Residue

Gunshot Residue (GSR) or Firearm Discharge Residue (FDR) is the technical term used for particles that are deposited on the body and clothing of a person who discharges a firearm. It can also be found on surfaces nearby the location of the discharge such as walls or floors. Gunshot residue…

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What the Largest U.S. Governtment’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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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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