VIRTUAL SEMINAR IN FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY: A Look Forward at New Psychoactive Substances and a Look BAC at Ethanol
Date: December 16 – 17, 2021
Join us for the 2021 ACMT Seminar in Forensic Toxicology. Led by recognized experts in medical toxicology, medicine, and law, this course will be offered Thursday, December 16, and Friday, December 17, 2021.
This 2-day course will focus on important forensic and medical-legal aspects of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and ethanol. For decades, forensic concerns about ethanol have focused on intent, impairment, and liability. We are now challenged by a growing number of legal cases involving NPS. Can the lessons learned about ethanol provide a framework to address these same issues regarding NPS?
Cases involving alcohol and novel stimulant, opioid, and hallucinogenic compounds will be discussed. Panelists will highlight the importance of scene-based information, analytic considerations, and interpretation of clinical or postmortem findings in an ever-changing drug environment.
Target Audience: Physicians, pharmacists, toxicologists, analytic chemists, medical review officers, nurses, scientists, social workers, attorneys, law enforcement, and public health specialists.
Continuing Education (CE) credits will be available to physicians, forensic toxicologists, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and lawyers.
Learn More Here + Register Here. Questions? Contact info@acmt.net
Day 1 (Ethanol) Topics Include:
- From Death to Death Certificate
• Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics of Ethanol
• Analysis of Alcohol in Blood
• Analysis of Alcohol in Breath
• Methods & Findings: Impairment of Driving Related Abilities by Alcohol
• Interpretation of Ethanol Results Including Post-Mortem Generation + Impairment by Ethanol
• Retrograde Extrapolation and other Ethanol Calculations
• ED Pitfalls: Legal Concerns in the Care of Inebriated Patients.
Day 2 (NPS) Topics Include:
Introduction to New Psychoactive Substances
• ETOH Z drugs? Identifying Behavioral Differences in the Impaired Driver; and Case Panels: Habeas Corpus & K2
• Opioids & Analysis of “Altered” Biological Matrix
• Synthetic Cannabinoids & Alternate Anatomic Diagnoses
• Drug Use and Liability in a Congregate Setting
