Forensic Chemistry of Substance Misuse: A Guide to Drug Control
by: Leslie A. King
Forensic Chemistry of Substance Misuse: A Guide to Drug Control
By Leslie A. King
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: 2009-05-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0854041788
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780854041787
Product Description:
This book provides a chemical background to the domestic and international legal controls on drugs of abuse and related substances and includes coverage of ‘designer drugs’ and generic/analogue controls from the US, UK, and New Zealand perspectives.
General chapters cover the recent history of the drug classification debate and a proposal for consolidating a wide range of legal controls on chemical substances. An account is provided of the Early Warning System on ‘New Psychoactive Substances’ in operation in the European Union. Technical and subsidiary material is placed in 20 Appendices, which list controlled substances and cover topics such as: precursor chemicals, related legislation, sentencing guidelines and detailed chemical/pharmacological profiles of the most commonly-abused drugs. There is a glossary and a bibliography, while extensive footnotes support the text and provide references to selected publications and Internet sources.
The book contains a number of unique features, not found in any other single publication:
For the forensic scientist, the book contains a complete list of all drug substances controlled by International law. It explains the chemical-structural definitions and the significance to the legislation of terms such as salt, base, stereoisomer, ester, ether, derivative, homologue and isotope.
For the more general reader, there is an account of the history of domestic, European and International drugs control, the long debate about drug classification, the role of risk assessment and how the legal control of a wide range of harmful chemical substances might be consolidated.
For the criminal lawyer, the book provides a useful adjunct to standard works on case and statute law.
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