Journal of Clinical and Experimental Toxicology

Forensic Drug

Forensic toxicology represents variety of related disciplines aimed to help within the detection and interpretation of medicine and poisons for medico-legal purposes. the necessity for forensic drug analysis isn't only restricted for coronial work; it also can be utilized in the determination of medicine in hospitalized patients admitted following a suspected poisoning (i.e., emergency clinical toxicology), drug-facilitated crimes where drugs are wont to poison or sedate; drugs and driving; and medicines utilized in human performance (i.e., drugs in sport).

Globally, approximately 6.6% of the adult population (persons aged 15–64) use these drugs with much higher percentages in some jurisdictions and within the younger population (under 30 years of age). Most of those users aren't related to criminal activities; however, approximately 10% of drug users have either developed a drug-dependency syndrome or other drug-use disorders and interface with the system

In some jurisdictions the incidence of illicit drug use, or drug traffic , in persons arrested for crimes are over 70%. Premature disease and injury also are high in drug users and about 1% of adult deaths are caused by illicit drug use. most of those cases come to the eye of doctors and coroners