forensic toxicology

Learn more about Toxicology at the CSI Experience: http://forensics.rice.edu/index.html

1. Enter "Case 1: Rookie Training" (you can play as a guest)
2. Start your training by going to the toxicology lab. Make sure that you choose "Learn About the Lab."
3. Work your way through identifying which 3 fluids do toxicologists typically test, were do they get them from, what they use when a body is too decomposed, why they do more than one test, what machines they use, and most importantly which drug was the victim on when he crashed his car
4. Detail your experiences in a new post in your journal

Forensic Toxicologists usually take 2 mL of vitreous humor, the clear fluid found behind the eyeball that gives the eye its shape. 30 mL of blood for testing and comparative purposes, 30mL of urine to compare to the other two fluids to check for  drugs of any sort, because if one fluid has a positive result then the other two should have the same positive. 

When a body is too badly decomposed, they collect the maggots that eat lunch on the dead body. They collect them because if you open them up, you can get the persons dna in the maggots stomach and they will tell you how long the person has been dead for. 

they use a GC i think it was to detect if there was any blood alcohol in the body, an ELISA test for certain drugs-amphetamine, barbiturates, opiates, and others. The drug was C10H13NO- Methcathinone, also known as 'cat'. 

I like this, it gave me a 'real hands on feel' of what the different machines do and how to collect the evidence to use to get the desired result, in this case the who's and what's, that made this person wreck his car. It was quite interesting!