Drug use
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.
What’s That Drug? Fast Screening of Seized Drugs
Date Published
August 5, 2024
NIJ-funded scientists from West Virginia University develop quick, easy, and accurate drug tests.
New Screening Method to Detect Drugs and Poisons Postmortem
Date Published
June 11, 2024
The Miami-Dade medical examiner’s office has developed a quick method to screen fluids for hundreds of drugs simultaneously, improving workflow.
Detecting Drugs in Hair: Is it Drug Use or Environmental Contamination?
NCJ Number
309097
Date Published
June 2024
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Detecting Drugs in Hair: Is It Drug Use or Environmental Contamination?
Date Published
June 4, 2024
NIJ-funded researchers develop a new approach to address a long-standing problem in toxicology.
Drug-Impaired Driving: The Contribution of Emerging and Undertested Drugs
NCJ Number
309016
Date Published
May 2024
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Publication Link
Drug-Impaired Driving: The Contribution of Emerging and Undertested Drugs
Date Published
May 16, 2024
Screening for Forensically Relevant Drugs Using Data-Independent High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry
NCJ Number
308975
Date Published
2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Offering Recovery Rather Than Punishment: Implementation of a Law Enforcement-led Pre-arrest Diversion-to-treatment Program for Adults with Substance Use Disorders
NCJ Number
308877
Date Published
April 2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Five Things to Know About Women and Reentry
Date Published
April 9, 2024
Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population
NCJ Number
308639
Date Published
2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Development of Portable Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive Characterization of Drugs in Human Biofluids
NCJ Number
308569
Date Published
2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Notes from the Field: Cluster of Severe Illness from Neptune’s Fix Tianeptine Linked to Synthetic Cannabinoids — New Jersey, June–November 2023
NCJ Number
308563
Date Published
February 2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Evaluation and Classification of Fentanyl Related Compounds using EC-SERS and Machine Learning
NCJ Number
308300
Journal
Date Published
May 2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Analysis of Desomorphine in Urine Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
NCJ Number
255772
Journal
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Drug screening method development for paper spray coupled to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
NCJ Number
255254
Journal
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Adolescent Substance Use: Latent Class and Transition Analysis
NCJ Number
253161
Journal
Date Published
February 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Methamphetamine and Violence in Illinois
NCJ Number
240432
Date Published
2012
Agencies
BJA-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Publication Link
The Need to Rethink Harm Reduction for People Using Drugs Alone to Reduce Overdose Fatalities
NCJ Number
308281
Journal
Date Published
2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition: What Insect, Scavenger, and Microbial Evidence Tells Us
NCJ Number
308273
Date Published
January 2023
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition: What Insect, Scavenger, and Microbial Evidence Tells Us
Date Published
January 9, 2024
Phase II Metabolites of Drugs in Hair: A Potential Solution for Environmental Contamination
NCJ Number
308223
Date Published
2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Brief report: Synthetic cannabinoid use among military personnel
NCJ Number
308045
Journal
Date Published
2023
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link