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Preemptive Approach to Combatting and Characterizing Emerging Synthetic Opioids
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Please be aware that this content contains descriptions of violence that may be distressing to some viewers.This webinar seeks to describe how preemptive synthesis and characterization of potent psychoactive substances from the literature can aid forensic scientists in the identification of unknowns appearing in samples emerging from illicit markets. Additionally, the presenter seeks to provide understanding of how gaps in pharmacological knowledge of old drugs can be exploited to find new emerging synthetic drugs.
This webinar was hosted by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on February 8, 2021.
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Date Published: February 8, 2021