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Etodesnitazene — New Synthetic Opioid Identified During Forensic Death Investigations in the United States and Canada

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Bromazolam Prevalence Surging Across the United States Driven In Part by Increasing Detections Alongside Fentanyl

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Assessment of the Contribution to Drug Impaired Driving from Emerging and Undertested Drugs

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of the six-ring regioisomeric dimethoxybenzyl-N-methylpiperazines (DMBMPs)

Journal

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Date Published

2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A Strategy to Prioritize Emerging Drugs of Abuse for Analysis: Abuse Liability Testing Using Intracranial Self-stimulation (ICSS) in Rats and Validation with α-pyrrolidinohexanophenone (α-PHP)

Journal

Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Creation and Release of an Updated NIST DART-MS Forensics Database

Journal

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Date Published

February 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Prevalence of Novel Psychoactive Substances in Oral Fluid, Final Research Report

Date Published

December 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Chemometric Processing of DART-HRMS-derived Dark Matter for the Identification of New Psychoactive Substances

Date Published

March 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

To Catch a Drug

Date Published

October 2022

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Issue Overview

To Catch a Drug

October 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

NIJ communications assistant Josh Mondoro explores novel psychoactive substances with NIJ scientist Frances Scott. She explains what NPSs are, current research in the field, and the practical impact of this research for law enforcement and policymakers.

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To Catch a Drug

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To Catch a Drug

Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US

15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2022

$485,938

Real-Time Sample-Mining and Data-Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)

2020-DQ-BX-0007

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2022

$200,000

Rapid determination of the 'legal highs' 4MMC and 4MEC by spectroelectrochemistry: simultaneous cyclic voltammetry and in situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Journal

Sensors

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Identifying Successes and Barriers in a Child Advocacy Center: An Examination of Five Service Areas

Journal

Child & Youth Services

Date Published

August 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Revealing the presence of tryptamine new psychoactive substances using fused "neutral loss" spectra derived from DART high-resolution mass spectra

Journal

Talanta

Date Published

August 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A determination of the aerosolization efficiency of drugs of abuse in a eutectic mixture with nicotine in electronic cigarettes

Journal

Drug Testing and Analysis

Date Published

July 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Delta(8)-THC, THC-O Acetates and CBD-di-O Acetate: Emerging Synthetic Cannabinoids Found in Commercially Sold Plant Material and Gummy Edibles

Journal

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Date Published

June 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Comprehensive Drug Screening of Whole Blood by LC-HRMS-MS in a Forensic Laboratory

Journal

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Challenges in Identifying Novel Psychoactive Substances and a Stronger Path Forward

Quantitative Analysis of Novel Synthetic Opioids, Morphine and Buprenorphine in Oral Fluid by LC-MS-MS

Journal

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Reports of Adverse Events Associated with Use of Novel Psychoactive Substances, 2017-2020: A Review

Journal

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Date Published

April 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Literature Review

Non-contact detection of fentanyl by a field-portable ion mobility spectrometer

Journal

Drug Testing and Analysis

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Pharmacological Evaluation and Forensic Case Series of N-pyrrolidino Etonitazene (etonitazepyne), a Newly Emerging 2-benzylbenzimidazole 'Nitazene' Synthetic Opioid

Journal

Archives of Toxicology

Date Published

April 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Increasing Safety, Speed, Sensitivity, and Selectivity of Controlled Substance Analysis

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A transnational perspective on the evolution of the synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists market: Comparing prison and general populations

Journal

Drug Testing and Analysis

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)