Wigmore on Nicotine and its Drug Delivery Systems
The Medicolegal Aspects of Our Most Addictive and Dangerous Legal Drug
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2023
- Category
- Media & the Law, Drug Guides, Toxicology, Drugs & the Law, Forensic Science, Medical Law & Legislation, Forensic Medicine, Toxicology, Health
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552216484
- Publish Date
- Jan 2023
- List Price
- $144.00
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Description
Wigmore on Nicotine is the third book in the author’s trilogy of the forensic toxicology and medicolegal aspects of alcohol, cannabis, and now nicotine. Maintaining the same high standards and superb organization of his other books, it is an indispensable source for medical and legal practitioners seeking relevant information about nicotine. Of the three drugs, nicotine is the most poisonous, toxic, and addictive. Explore the fascinating world of nicotine, a neurotoxin and pesticide, and how it has been promoted by the tobacco industry in its many forms and drug delivery systems, including smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes (JUUL), waterpipes, bidis, and IQOS. Nicotine is a drug that has been mainly ignored by forensic laboratories and by medicolegal professionals, although it is associated with accidental poisonings, driving impairment, house fires, suicides, and homicides. High-potency nicotine liquids sold on the internet as e-liquids make this drug readily available to the general public and will increase its medicolegal significance.
About the author
James G. Wigmore has worked as a forensic toxicologist for over 29 years at one of the foremost forensic laboratories in North America — the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto, Ontario. He has testified in over 700 criminal cases throughout Canada and in numerous personal injury civil cases and coroner’s inquests. He has published over seventy scientific articles in forensic toxicology that have been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada and the High Court of South Africa. James has been interviewed numerous times on the CBC and other media on the issues arising out of the legalization of cannabis in Canada and on vaping. He was on Health Canada’s expert panel on public information regarding cannabis. He received the prestigious Derome Award from the Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences for his outstanding contributions to the field of forensic science. His book series on the medicolegal aspects of alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine has received international acclaim.
