title: [Forensic toxicology, a growing scientific discipline].
abstract: Forensic toxicology has to bring evidence of substances that could have been involved directly or indirectly in the cause of death or that could influence the behaviour of somebody. The increase of the consumption of illegal and legal drugs in modern societies during last decades gave a boost to forensic toxicology. Moreover, improvement with analytical technology gave tools with high degrees of sensitivity and specificity for the screening and quantification of a large amount of substances in various biological specimens, even with very low concentration resulting of a single dose of medication.
authors: Unité de toxicologie et de chimie forensiques, Centre universitaire romand de medecine légale, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1005 Lausanne. Marc.Augsburger@chuv.ch
authors: Marc
authors: M
authors: Augsburger
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Staub
mesh_terms: D001334:Automobile Driving; D002845:Chromatography; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D053593:Forensic Toxicology / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis