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Meeting the Evolving Challenges of Fentanyl and Other Emerging Drugs of Abuse: Innovative Strategies for Improving Analysis

Date Published

September 1, 2022

NIJ-supported research offers new workflow for complicated drug analysis, improves upon traditional workflow.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Heroin and Crime Initiative: Informing the Investigation and Prosecution of Heroin-Related Overdose, Research Abstract

Date Published

2022

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NIJ-Sponsored

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Heroin and Crime Initiative: Informing the Investigation and Prosecution of Heroin-Related Overdose: Summary Overview of the HIDI Protocol and Recommendations for Law Enforcement

Date Published

2022

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NIJ-Sponsored

Challenges in Identifying Novel Psychoactive Substances and a Stronger Path Forward

Complex Drug Mixtures Analysis, Using Open-Source Search Software and Library Building Tool

Date Published

June 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ

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

Date Published

2018

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BJA Implementation Manuals

Publication Type

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

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NIJ

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

Date Published

April 2022

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NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

April 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Development and evaluation of a synthetic opioid targeted gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method

Date Published

November 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Medical Examiner and Coroner Outsourcing Study – A Qualitative Study and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Date Published

January 2022

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NIJ-Sponsored

Toxicological and Pharmacological Characterization of Novel Cinnamylpiperazine Synthetic Opioids in Humans and in Vitro Including 2-methyl AP-237 and AP-238

Date Published

March 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Metonitazene in the United States-Forensic toxicology assessment of a potent new synthetic opioid using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry

Date Published

2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Opioid-like adverse effects of tianeptine in male rats and mice

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Quantitation of Fentanyl and Metabolites from Blow Fly Tissue and Development Effects of Fentanyl on Lucilia Sericata

Date Published

2021

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

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NIJ-Sponsored

How Good Are the Data? Novel Metric Assesses Probability That an Unknown Drug Sample Matches a Known Sample

Date Published

March 17, 2022

NIJ-funded researchers developed a novel metric to assess probability that an unknown sample of a drug matches a library sample, with profound implications for standardization of mass spectrometry results.

Phenethyl-4-ANPP: A Marginally Active Byproduct Suggesting a Switch in Illicit Fentanyl Synthesis Routes

Date Published

March 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Concentrations of Para-Fluorofuranylfentanyl in Paired Central and Peripheral Blood Collected during Postmortem Death Investigations

Date Published

March 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Covalent Surface Modification of Ti3C2Tx MXene with Chemically Active Polymeric Ligands Producing Highly Conductive and Ordered Microstructure Films

Date Published

March 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Detecting Opioid Distribution Networks Using Network Modeling and Community-Based Intelligence

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

Date Published

October 2018

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Quantitation and Validation of 34 Fentanyl Analogs from Liver Tissue Using a QuEChERS Extraction and LC–MS-MS Analysis

Date Published

2021

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NIJ-Sponsored

Detecting Opioid Distribution Networks Using Network Modeling and Community-Based Intelligence

Date Published

February 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

Five Things About Substance Use Interventions

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...

Oral Fluid and Drug Impairment: Pairing Toxicology with Drug Recognition Expert Observations

Date Published

2019

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NIJ-Sponsored