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Instrumentality

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Device, system or hardware played sig. role in a crime

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Contraband

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Digital device is illegally possessed or is illegal to possess due to legal reason

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“Mere”

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Evidence that not seized, instead goal is to get data that is of value

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Digital evidence

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Information and data of value that is stored on, received or transmitted by an electronic device

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First responders: handle digital evidence

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  1. Recognize, document, and secure
  2. Document entire scene/location
  3. Collect label and preserve
  4. Package and transport in secure manner
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Useful evidence

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Photos, documents, chat logs, browsing history, stored data, etc.

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Hard drives

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Data storage device

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External hard drive

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Increase computers data storage capacity and provide portable data

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Removable media

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Cartridges and disc-based data storage devices

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Thumb drives

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Small lightweight removable data storage devices with USB connection

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Memory cards

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Small dated storage devices

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Digital collection toolkit

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Cameras 
cardboard boxes
notepads
evidence tape 
evidence sketches, labels, tags
crime scene tape 
Gloves
Inventory logs
Anti static bags
Permanent markers
Non magnetic tools
Radio frequency shielding materials
      -tinfoil
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3 options for locating person with cell phone

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  1. Single cell tower search
  2. GPS
  3. Cell tower triangulation (most accurate)
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Death

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Irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions

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Homicide

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Killing of one person by another

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Excusable homicide

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Unintentional, truly accidental killing

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Justifiable homicide

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Killing of person under authority of law

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Signs of death

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Lack of breathing, heart beat, flushing of fingernail, failure of eyelids to close

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Coroner

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Elected official

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Medical examiner

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Physician, not elected

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Forensic pathologist

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Medicine branch, applies to fundamentals and knowledge of medical sciences to problems in field of law and those that relate to public health and safety

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Manner of death

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Circumstances under which cause of death occurred

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Natural

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Caused by a disease or old age

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Unnatural

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Homicide, suicide, accident or undetermined

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Cause of death

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Injury/disease responsible for the pathological and physiological disturbances that resulted in death

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Autopsy

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Medical dissection/exam of body to determine cause if death

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Post mortem interval

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Time elapsed since death occurred

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Livor mortis

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Color change occurs from pooling of blood after heart stops

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Tardieu spots

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Small, pinpoint hemorrhages caused by burst capillaries

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Rigor mortis

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Stiffening of body

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Cadaveric spasm

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Immediate rigor

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Algor mortis

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Loss of body heat

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32
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Rainey’s equation

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LogD - logtI
____________ = X (hours since tod)

LogR

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Vitreous draw

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Sample of ocular fluid from eye determine potassium levels

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Decomposition

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Postmortem breakdown of body tissues

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Putrefaction

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Postmortem changes produce by actions of bacteria and microorganisms

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Mummification

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Dehydration of tissues

High temp, low humidity, some form of ventilation

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Adipocere

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Hydration and dehydration of the body’s fat, results in off white, waxy, claylike substance

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Postmortem

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After death

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Perimortem

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Occurred at or near death

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Perimortem injuries include

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Mechanic, thermal, chemical, and electrical traumas

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Exsanguination

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Death due bleeding out

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Penetrating gunshot wound

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Entrance but no exit

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Perforating gunshot wound

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Entrance and exit wound

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Contact/near contact injury

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Less than 0.5 cm from target

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Distance range injury

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Greater than 1 to 1.5 m

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Hypothermia

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Lowering of body temp due to excessive cold

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Hyperthermia

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Rising of body temp due to excessive heat

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Asphyxia

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Interruption of oxygen to brain

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Drowning

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Death by asphyxiation cause by water submersion

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Cone of foam, foam cone

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Caused by drug overdose

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Flashpoint

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Lowest temp which liquid gives off sufficient vapor to mix with air that supports combustion

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Pyrolysis

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Chem decomp of solid to gas

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Flammable range

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Range which air and fuel will support combustion

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Incendiary evidence

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Crime scene debris, observed burning characteristics and absence of accidental causation

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USERT

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Underwater search and evidence response team

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Black water diving

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Visibility is reduced to nothing readable/ visible

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Line tenders

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Individuals eyes and ears of forensic diver

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PADI

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Professional association of dive instructors

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SSI

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Scuba schools international

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NAUI

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National association of underwater instructors

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First scene

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Surface scene

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Second scene

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Submerged scene

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Ultimate goal

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Determine whether crime has been committed

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DMORT

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Disaster mortuary operational response team

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Probing

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Pushing metal rod into ground, where enter more easily is marked

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CPU

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Central processing unit

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Sir Robert peel

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First police department

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Allan Pinkerton

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Chicago’s first detective

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Edmond locard

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Credited for worlds first crime lab

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Locard’s exchange principle

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Two objects that contact cross transfer evidence

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Negative witness

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Someone who explains why forensic evidence is absent or not being introduced

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Ethics

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Study of moral standards and how they effect conduct

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Values

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Beliefs if a person/group for or against an emotional investment

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Expert witness

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Provides specialized info, can provide opinion, educate jury

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The daubert standard

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Judges must eval testimony is both relevant and reliable

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Mechanical loss

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Evidence lost though saving a life

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Transient evidence

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Fragile or at great risk of loss

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Local/traditional model

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Police are used as primary scrims scene personnel

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Crime scene investigator/tech

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Personnel who are dedicated to documentation and physical evidence collection and preservation

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Crime lab model

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Responds to serious cases

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Team model

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Most effective, most specialized model

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Cross contamination

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Unintentional movement/transfer of material between two objects

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PPE

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Personal protection equipment

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PPE levels

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Level A-D ; A is most dangerous

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Viscosity

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Molecules of blood that are mutually attracted to each other

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Directionality

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Direction blood is traveling

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Swipe

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Bloodied surface against non bloody one

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Wipe

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Non bloody surface moves across a bloody one

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Cast off patterns

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Created when blood is released/ thrown from a blood-bearing object

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Arterial spirt

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Artery is breached, blood projects in vetoed amounts

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NIBIN

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National integrated ballistics information network

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IBIS

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Integrated ballistic identification system

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Zones of possibility

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Probable, possible and impossible

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CSA

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Controlled substance act

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Five classes of drugs

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Narcotics, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and anabolic steroids

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Potency

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Amount needed to produce a certain effect

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Efficacy

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Whether or not a drug can produce an effect regardless of dose

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How many schedules of drugs

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Five. One is the highest chance for abuse

99
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Physiological effects of hallucinogens

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Elevated heart rate, increased blood pressure, dilated pupils

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