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Medical-Legal
Aspects of Abused Substances: Old & New- Licit
& Illicit
Marcelline
Burns, Thomas Page
6"
x 9", casebound, 248 pages
2006, Lawyers
and Judges
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Contributors:
Sevil Atasoy, Tanil Baskan, Martin Boorman, Nina Emerson,
Peter Gerstenzang, Clark John, Sarah Kerrigan, Chuck Matson,
Joel Mayer, Morris Odell, Trinka Porrata, Eric Sills, Philip
Swann
Table
of Contents
About
the authors
If you regularly handle cases involving
substance abuse or need information on newly compounded
substances, as well as re-discovered drugs of abuse such
as Ecstasy, Meth, PCP, Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate, one of the
most common “Date Rape" drugs, and Anabolic-Androgenic
Steroids popular with today’s athletes, this is your
reference of choice. Medical-Legal Aspects of Abused
Substances has extensive chapters devoted to the above
substances as well as others.
The authors discuss the role of law
enforcement officers in abused substance cases, double standards
in enforcing substance abuse laws, driving under the influence
of drugs as opposed to alcohol, and legal and prosecution
perspectives regarding this type of case. This book contains
much valuable information and is a must for anyone who regularly
deals with prosecuting or defending substance abuse cases.
The authors also present case studies
of Turkey and Australia’s laws pertaining to abused
substances and driving, and how they were developed. This
information is particularly valuable to those involved in
the creation of substance abuse legislation, here in the
US and around the world.
About the
Authors
Marcelline Burns, Ph.D.
earned degrees in Psychology from San Diego State University,
California State University, Los Angeles, and the University
of California, Irvine. In 2003 she retired from the Southern
California Research Institute where she studied the effects
of alcohol and other drugs on human performance for three
decades. She and colleagues developed the Standardized Field
Sobriety Tests (SFSTs), and she subsequently conducted laboratory
and field studies of both the SFSTs and Drug Recognition
Expert methods. She lectures, trains, and provides expert
testimony on the effects of alcohol and drugs.
Thomas
E. Page, M.A. earned a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Industrial Psychology and a Master of Arts degree in
Urban Studies from the University of Detroit. He participated
in the initial development of the Drug Recognition Expert
(DRE) training curriculum and was Officer-in-charge of the
Los Angeles Police Department’s DRE unit form 1990
to 1999. He served as the General Chairperson of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police DRE Section and as a member
of that organization’s DRE Technical Advisory Panel.
Courts in fifteen states have found him qualified to give
testimony as a drug expert.
Table
of Contents
Related
books:
Drug
Injury: Liability, Analysis, and Prevention
Forensic Aspects of Driver Perception and Response
Karch's
Pathology of Drug Abuse
Medical Legal Aspects of Alcohol
Methamphetamine
Use: Clinical and Forensic Aspects
Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction and Litigation,
with CD-ROM
Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction and Litigation
Slips,
Trips, Missteps, and their Consequences (formerly
Falls and Related Injuries)
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