DRUG CHEMISTRY AND TOXICOLOGY

Catalog description

Prerequisite: CHE 202 or equivalent; CHE 312 or FOR 612 or equivalent; CHE 403 or CHE 680 or equivalent. Overview of misused and illegal pharmaceuticals, toxicology, poisons, forensic drug analysis, and illicit drug manufacture. Types, classes, and structures of illicit pharmaceuticals and the laws governing these substances; mechanism of biological activity and toxicological issues of each class; immunoassay technologies for drugs-of-abuse testing analysis; methods of forensic analysis of commonly encountered illegal drugs; and methods of surreptitious manufacture and law enforcement concerns with clandestine laboratories.