FIVS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Forensic Toxicology, Desomorphine, Phytotoxin
2 Dec 2015
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Has a stimulant effect, but for a while you could buy them as bath salts over the counter till the florida incident. Anything that comes from the leaves of an african bush is illegal now(where the bath salts are made). Really bad side effects; kind of morphine called desomorphine. Attracted attention in russia bc people learned how to make them in their own homes, which is bad bc lots of impurities. It causes flesh-necrosis, but people dont notice it bc its a pain killer. Acts like heroine, but the high is shorter and the symptoms of withdrawl set in really quickly. A poison is any substance administered in living body will produce ill heath or death. forensic toxicology: deals with medical and legal aspects of harmful effects of chemicals. Port mortem toxicology: determines alcohol, drugs, and other poisons contributed to death. Poisonous substances are produced all over, and by different things. Toxicant: a toxin produced and introduced by humans.
