What is forensic toxicology?

What is forensic toxicology?

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Forensic toxicology is the study or the ability to study the human body for the presence of drugs and poisons. So the forensic toxicologist will normally undertake an analysis of blood, urine and perhaps if we're dealing with the deceased, body organs in order to determine what foreign drugs or what foreign poisons are present in the body.