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Forensic Pharmacology offers a unique and comprehensible account of pharmacological methods and knowledge, and explains their use in the solving of a wide range of crimes, from drunken driving to murder. It also deals with negligence in prescribing and administering drugs, and adverse reactions to drugs. The text is enlivened by cases from the literature and from the authors' experience. Appendices offer detailed examples of pharmacological problems and their solutions, compile tables and equations for alcohol calculations, and provide data for medicines encountered in forensic work.Experts do not always understand what lawyers want of them, and lawyers fail to appreciate that experts in medicine and pharmacology may not be experts in the law. The section entitled "Legal Considerations" was written by a lawyer with a long experience in using expert evidence. It explains clearly the relevant legal principles, and contains helpful hints on how to manage the intricacies of court procedure.