Toxicology By: Scott Rolnick

What is Forensic Science

• Forensic Science is the use of Science in the field of law. It has many different branches that all deal with different forms of science such as biology or physics.

What does a Forensic Scientist do?

• A Forensic Scientist typically uses evidence from a crime scene and dissect information from it to build a crime scene from every angle and help figure out who committed the crime.

What does a toxicologist do?

• A Toxicologist tries to find all of the drugs and harmful residue that is in a body. They also can test out harmful drugs for pharmaceutical companies in order to make sure that they do not have harmful side affects.

How to become a toxicologist/Requriments

• To become a toxicologist you will need at least a bachelor degree in natural sciences such as biology and/or chemistry.• Having a graduate degree in toxicology

also helps to acquire some of the more prestigious jobs.• It also helps to have classes in Math and

human medicine.

What evidence do you work with?

• Typically the evidence that you will work with will be bodies as you will perform a number of tests on them in order to see what harmful products were used on the body.

Salary

• The average income for a toxicologist is 72 thousand dollars.• It can range from 50 thousand to 100

thousand dollars.

Where will you work

• A toxicologist will typically work in a lab of some kind. Whether it be in a forensics lab working with tissue or in a pharmaceutical lab testing drugs.

Case solved with help from toxicology

• On July 26, 2009 a minivan collided with a Chevrolet trailblazer on Taconic state parkway killing 8 people. The driver of the minivan was Diane Schuler who was with her children and nieces. At first sympathy was given to the horrific crash but, when the toxicology report came back the view changed heavily. It turns out that she had been both drunk and high. She had a .19 percent alcohol level and THC (which is commonly found in marijuana) in her system.

Citations

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• "Toxicologist Salary | Salary.com." Salary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2015.

• "Toxicology Reports Solved Mystery." Crime Blog:. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2015.