Category: Forensic Toxicology
Suboxone Causes Tooth Decay
Suboxone and Tooth Decay: What the FDA Warning and the Science Actually Say Forensic Toxicology Review The Okorocha Firm pH 7.0 5.5 acidic oral surface The Film That Dissolves on Your Teeth Buprenorphine saves lives in opioid use disorder. The way it is delivered, dissolved against the teeth twice a…
GLP-1’s Extremely Rare Side-Effects
One Drug, Three Injuries: GLP-1 Agonists, the Stomach, the Pregnancy, and the Optic Nerve Forensic Notebook The Okorocha Firm One Drug, Three Injuries: GLP-1 Agonists and the Causation Question The same slowed-stomach pharmacology that makes semaglutide and tirzepatide work is now at the center of three separate injury theories: stomach…
Depo Provera & Intracranial Meningiomas
The Needle and the Meninges: Depo-Provera and the Rising Science of Intracranial Meningioma The Okorocha Firm Law + Science = Forensics Forensic Toxicology & Pharmacology The Needle and the Meninges A quarterly injection met an ordinary brain tumor, and the collision is now reshaping pharmacovigilance, product labeling, and the science of causation in court….
Lamictal & Serious Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Risk
Lamotrigine and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome | The Okorocha Firm The Okorocha Firm Law + Science = Forensics Forensic Pharmacology A Rash That Reads Like Evidence Lamotrigine carries a boxed warning for Stevens-Johnson syndrome. The science of how that injury happens, and when, maps almost line for line onto the questions a…
“Pink Cocaine” Isn’t Cocaine & is Dangerous
Pink Cocaine Isn’t Cocaine — The Dark Reality of “Tusi” Forensic Toxicology · Public Health Pink CocaineIsn’t Cocaine A candy-colored powder is sweeping nightlife from Bogotá to New York. Almost nothing about it is what the name promises. By The Desk Long read · 7 min Updated 2026 A pink,…
Ninth Circuit Rulings Cause Open-Carry Law Confusion
Open Carry in California: Why the Headlines Outran the Law The Okorocha Firm Notes on California Law Second Amendment · Status Update Open Carry in California: Why the Headlines Outran the Law A Ninth Circuit panel struck down the urban open-carry ban in January. The full court has since voted…
California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act Decision
Half a Loaf for California’s Kids-Online Law The Okorocha Firm Notes on California Law Technology · Children Online Half a Loaf for California’s Kids-Online Law On its second look at the Age-Appropriate Design Code, the Ninth Circuit put the age-estimation rule back in play while keeping the data-use and “dark…
Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Program Analysis
FORENSIC SCIENCE The DRE Hoax Anatomy of a forensic illusion: why the “Drug Recognition Expert” evaluation looks like science, and why its own validation studies prove almost nothing. Analysis — Forensics Desk · 12 min read · Sources: Kane 2013, Heishman 1996, UMFC 2021 A police officer shines a penlight…
Kosecki PA, Brooke PJ, Raines ME. Lack of fermentation in antemortem blood samples stored unstoppered in various locations. J Forensic Sci. 2023
By ToxGIrl The Study That Proved Nothing: A Close Read of the “No Fermentation” Paper The Forensic Margin● Toxicology / Evidence Critical Read · Blood-Alcohol Science The Study That Proved Nothing A 2023 paper is increasingly cited to shut down “fermentation” defenses in DUI cases. Read closely, it answers a…
Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids
A Visual Forensic Guide to Ten Prevalent Compounds Pharmacokinetics, detection science, clinical profile, and litigation use for attorneys, judges, and forensic professionals By ToxGirl The legal point:AAS cases are rarely won or lost on the label “steroid.” They turn on compound identity, detection window, confirmation method, dose/timeline fit, and whether…
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…
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…
