New Screening Method to Detect Drugs and Poisons Postmortem
Date Published
June 2024
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Drug overdose
The Daunting Task of Strengthening Medical Examiner and Coroner Investigations Across Hundreds of Jurisdictions
Date Published
April 24, 2024
After a five-year fact-finding mission, a multi-agency working group has identified a host of problems in the U.S. medical examiner/coroner system, but solutions remain elusive.
Development of Portable Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive Characterization of Drugs in Human Biofluids
Date Published
2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Aptamer-Based Fentanyl Detection in Biological Fluids
Journal
Analytical Chemistry
Date Published
November 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
4F-MDMB-BINACA: A New Synthetic Cannabinoid Widely Implicated in Forensic Casework
Journal
Journal of Forensic Sciences
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Direct-Injection Mass Spectrometric Method for the Rapid Identification of Fentanyl and Norfentanyl in Postmortem Urine of Six Drug-Overdose Cases
Journal
Journal of Analytical Toxicology
Date Published
October 2007
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Drug screening method development for paper spray coupled to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
Journal
Analytical Methods
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Direct Injection Mass Spectrometric Confirmation of Multiple Drugs in Overdose Cases From Postmortem Blood Using ESI-MS-MS and MS3
Journal
Journal of Analytical Toxicology
Date Published
October 2008
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Quantification of Cocaine in Ternary Mixtures Using Partial Least Squares Regression Applied to Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Journal
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
Date Published
August 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
The Need to Rethink Harm Reduction for People Using Drugs Alone to Reduce Overdose Fatalities
Journal
Substance Use & Misuse
Date Published
2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
A case study for local data surveillance in opioid overdose fatalities in Cuyahoga County, OH 2016-2020
Journal
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Date Published
September 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Sentinel event reviews: Applications in criminal justice settings
Journal
Journal of Crime and Justice
Date Published
2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Geography of poly-substance drug mortality
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice
Date Published
2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Nanoparticle-Decorated Micropillars As Integrated Raman Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Substrates for Quantitative and High-Throughput Toxicology Drug Analysis
15PNIJ-23-GG-04235-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$199,676
Building Drug Intelligence Networks to Combat the Opioid Crisis in Rural Communities: A Collaborative Intelligence-Led Policing Strategy
Date Published
September 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Fighting the Uphill War Against Illicit Drugs and Overdose Deaths: Detecting Emerging Designer Drugs and Opioid Analogs
Date Published
September 2023
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Drugs Discharged along Interstate Highway Restroom Facilities in Kentucky: Wastewater Analysis
Journal
Environmental Science & Technology Letters
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Classifying Crime Places by Neighborhood Visual Appearance and Police Geonarratives: A Machine Learning Approach
Journal
Journal of Computational Social Science
Date Published
November 2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Suite of Aptamer-Based Sensors for the Detection of Fentanyl and Its Analogues
Journal
ACS Sensors
Date Published
April 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Currently Applied Naming Conventions for Various Subclassifications of Novel Psychoactive Substances
Date Published
May 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Understanding Geographic and Neighborhood Variations in Overdose Death Rates
Journal
Journal of Community Health
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Revisiting Neighborhood Context and Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests Under the Opioid Epidemic
Journal
Race and Justice
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Supporting Law Enforcement and Prosecution of Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths
Date Published
December 2022
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Delaware Opioid Metric Intelligence Project, Final Report
Date Published
June 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Medicolegal Death Investigation Partnerships on Overdose Fatality Reviews
Date Published
July 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)