How to handle biological specimens -- Alternative specimens -- Pitfalls and cautions in analysis of drugs and poisons -- Pretreatments of human specimens -- Detection methods -- A computer system for diagnosis of causative drugs and poisons developed by the Japan Poison Information Center (Tokyo) -- Practical use of the poison-net developed by the Japan Poison Information Network (Hiroshima) -- Problems in toxin analysis in emergency medicine -- Analyses of chemical warefare agents and their related compounds -- Volatile compounds -- Controlled drugs -- Psychopharmaceuticals and hypnotics -- General drugs -- Chemicals of daily necessaries -- Natural toxins and alkaloids -- Pesticides -- Miscellaneous
Summary
"This book has been arranged such that any analytical chemist can sart analytical experiments for a drug or poison in a crude biological matrix, even if she/he has no experience of analyzing that compound. This is particularly useful in view of the acute risk of terrorist attacks in the world today."--Jacket
