Novel psychoactive substances
Isomer Differentiation of Novel Psychoactive Substances Using Gas Chromatography Solid Phase Infrared Spectroscopy (GC/IR)
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Development of an Open-Source Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) Search Software and Library Building Tool for the Analysis of Complex Drug Mixtures
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Material Designs Toward a Synthetic Cannabinoid Sensor
Date Published
2016
NIJ Announces $1.3M to Fund Research in Public Forensic Laboratories
On January 11, 2022, NIJ announced $1.3 million in funding to support 5 new projects under its Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories (Public Labs R&E) program. Through its funding of forensic science grants, NIJ, a component of the Office of Justice Programs, continues to improve the examination and interpretation of physical evidence across the...
Identifying Novel Psychoactive Substances: NIJ-Funded Research in Action
The DEA has issued a notice of intent to publish a temporary order to schedule seven synthetic benzimidazole-opioid substances in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. In addition to information gathered from multiple other data sources reviewed by DEA regarding novel synthetic drugs, trend reports from NPS Discovery, which provide near real-time information regarding NPS prevalence, are referenced in the Federal Register Notice. The...