Toxicology is the study of poisons, the identification of drugs a person may have used, and the
effects of poisons and _____ on the body.
The __________, the degree to which a substance is poisonous or can cause injury, of a drug or other substance depends on many factors: the dose (how much of it is taken in or absorbed), the duration (the frequency and length of the exposure), the nature of the exposure (whether it was ingested, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin), and other individual factors, such as whether the drug or toxin interacts with other substances in the body such as alcohol or prescription drugs.
The toxicity, the degree to which a substance is poisonous or can cause
injury, of a drug or other substance depends on many factors:
Toxic substances also are classified by how people are exposed to them:
Saliva-based drug tests are as accurate as ________-based tests.
The saliva test can generally detect illegal drugs immediately on use for up to about ______ hours.
________________. Ingested or exposed, as in unintentional overdoses or harmful combinations.
"All substances are poisons; there is non which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy." ____________(1493-1541)
Greek philosopher Socrates was one of the earliest reported victims of poisoning(__________, 399 B.C.).
What is known as inheritance powder?
________________ cult members consumed cyanide-laced punch in 1978, killing 900 people
Alexei Navalny(political opponent to _________________) in August 2020 was poisoned with a nerve agent lined inside his underwear.
If two people use the exact same amount of a drug and are tested, the person with _____________ hair will retain more drug in his or her hair than the lighter-haired person.
Less than one-half of 1 percentof all homicides result from ______________.
Toxicologists must distinguish between _____________ poisoning and chronic poisoning.
Chronic poisoning is caused by lower doses over long periods of time, which produces symptoms __________________.
Mercury and _________ poisoning are examples of chronic poisoning in which symptoms develop at the metal concentrations slowly rise and accumulate to toxic levels in the victims bodies over a long period of exposure.
According to the textbook, which famous people have died from accidental drug overdoses:
More than 50% of the ________________ prison population and about 20% of the population in state prisons consist of drug offenders.
First physicians to popularize the use of toxicology were Mathieu __________(1787-1853) and Robert Christison(1797-1882).