Guidance for improved detection of drugs used to facilitate crimes

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 229-233

  LeBeau, Marc A ^a  

^a FBI LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug facilitated crime; Drug facilitated sexual assault

Indexed keywords

7 AMINOFLUNITRAZEPAM; ALCOHOL; ALPRAZOLAM; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOBARBITAL; BROMPHENIRAMINE; BUTALBITAL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; DESIPRAMINE; DIAZEPAM; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; LORAZEPAM; NORCITALOPRAM; NORDAZEPAM; NORDOXEPIN; NORFLUOXETINE; NORSERTRALINE; OXAZEPAM; PAROXETINE; PENTOBARBITAL; SECOBARBITAL; SERTRALINE; TEMAZEPAM; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ASSAULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG USE; HUMAN; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICOLOGY; URINALYSIS; VICTIM;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CRIME; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; HUMANS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42049123881     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FTD.0b013e31816791d7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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