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Superhydrophobic Surface Modification of Polymer Microneedles Enables Fabrication of Multimodal Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Substrates for Synthetic Drug Detection in Blood Plasma

Date Published

September 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Non-Contact Detection of Fentanyl and Other Opioids: Towards a Generalized Approach to Detection of Dangerous Drug Classes

GRANT14119305

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$624,483

Just Science Podcast: Just Outreach Teams for Substance Use in Rural Nevada

Date Published

July 2024

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

BJA-Sponsored, NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Just Navigating Reentry Using Peer Support

Date Published

July 2024

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

BJA-Sponsored, NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Just Wastewater Drug Surveillance In Kentucky

Date Published

June 2024

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

BJA-Sponsored, NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Just Rapidly Identifying Drugs Involved in Suspected Overdoses

Date Published

June 2024

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

BJA-Sponsored, NIJ-Sponsored

Detecting Fentanyl Use Through Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing

Date Published

September 26, 2024

Researchers develop a more accurate picture of fentanyl use prevalence among people under court-ordered mandatory drug testing.

Addressing the Challenges of Detecting Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault

Date Published

September 12, 2024

NIJ has funded research to address the challenges of detecting DFSA for several years. This research includes projects that examine ways to improve forensic hair testing and how drugs modify blood proteins.

Success Story: NIJ and The Virginia Department of Forensic Science Advancing Drug Analysis in Forensic Toxicology for Enhanced Judicial Outcomes

Date Published

July 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Detecting Drugs in Hair: Is It Drug Use or Environmental Contamination?

Evaluating the Robustness and Ruggedness of a Statistical Model for Comparison of Mass Spectral Data for Seized Drug Identification

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

White Paper – Evolving Approaches And Technologies For Seized Drug Analysis

Date Published

December 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Technical Note – Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography Photo Diode Array Ultraviolet Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-PDA UV-MS)

Date Published

December 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Technical Note – Gas Chromatography-Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (GC-VUV)

Date Published

December 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Development of Portable Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive Characterization of Drugs in Human Biofluids

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Stability and Hydrolysis of Desomorphine-Glucuronide

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Analysis of Desomorphine in Urine Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Differentiation of Structurally Similar Phenethylamines via Gas Chromatography-Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (GC-VUV)

Date Published

August 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

4F-MDMB-BINACA: A New Synthetic Cannabinoid Widely Implicated in Forensic Casework

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Random Forest Processing of Direct Analysis in Real-Time Mass Spectrometric Data Enables Species Identification of Psychoactive Plants From Their Headspace Chemical Signatures

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Spectroscopic Differentiation and Chromatographic Separation of Regioisomeric Indole Aldehydes: Synthetic Cannabinoids Precursors

Date Published

March 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Correlation of Vapor Phase Infrared Spectra and Regioisomeric Structure in Synthetic cannabinoids

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Differentiation of the Regioisomeric 2 3 and 4-Trifluoromethylphenylpiperazines (TFMPP) by GC-IRD and GC-MS

Date Published

July 2009

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

GC-MS and GC-IRD Studies on Dimethoxyamphetamines (DMA): Regioisomers Related to 2,5-DMA

Date Published

November 2009

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

GC-MS Studies on the Regioisomeric Methoxy-Methyl-Phenethylamines Related to MDEA MDMMA and MBDB

Date Published

2008

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored