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The hidden costs of the opioid crisis and the implications for financial management in the public sector

Journal

Forensic Science International: Synergy

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Identifying and Informing Strategies for Disrupting Drug Distribution Networks: An Application to Opiate Flows in Pennsylvania

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

Event Dates

September 23, 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

"Just because Somebody Is in a White Jacket and Has a Medical Degree doesn't Mean they're Not a Drug Dealer": Law-Enforcement Experiences Investigating Occupational Offenders

Journal

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ, NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Drug- and Alcohol-Associated Deaths in US Jails

Journal

Journal of Correctional Health Care

Date Published

April 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Law Enforcement Efforts to Fight the Opioid Crisis: Convening Police Leaders, Multidisciplinary Partners, and Researchers to Identify Promising Practices and to Inform a Research Agenda

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Instructional Material (Programmed), Technical Assistance

A Sectioning, Coring, and Image Processing Guide for High-Throughput Cortical Bone Sample Procurement and Analysis for Synchrotron Micro-CT

Journal

Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Preemptive Approach to Combatting and Characterizing Emerging Synthetic Opioids

Event Dates

February 8, 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Novel Synthetic Opioids in Oral Fluid: Analytical Methods and Prevalence

Event Dates

February 11, 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Toxicological Time Travel: Retrospective Datamining of Analytical Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOFMS) Data for Evaluating the Rise and Fall of Novel Opioid and Fentanyl Analog Use in the United States

Date Published

December 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description

Fentanyl Contamination

DJO-NIJ-18-RO-0506

Open

Funding First Awarded

2018

$500,000

Non-Contact Detection of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids

DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0011

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$605,696

Expanding Research to Examine the Impacts of Forensic Science on the Criminal Justice System

December 2020

In 2004, the National Institute of Justice created the social science research on forensic sciences (SSRFS) research program to explore the impact of forensic sciences on the criminal justice system and the administration of justice. Much of the early research from the SSRFS program focused on DNA processing and the use of DNA in investigations and prosecutions.

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Validation of a LC-DAD-ESI/MS/MS method for the accurate measurement of THC and THCA-A among twenty cannabinoids in various products of Cannabis

2020-DQ-BX-0021

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$160,181

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

2020-DQ-BX-0009

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$478,783

Rapid In-Field Analysis of Illicit Substances in Unknown Powders and Aerosols

2020-R2-CX-0036

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$150,000

Life course and intergenerational effects of criminal justice involvement: Identifying risks, the search for resilience, and the impact of rise in opioid misuse and the Covid-19 pandemic

2020-MU-MU-0017

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$1,881,736

Fiscal Year 2019 Report on the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program

Date Published

September 2020

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding

Parent and Metabolite Opioid Drug Concentrations in Unintentional Deaths Involving Opioid and Benzodiazepine Combinations

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

July 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Pennsylvania System Tracks and Centralizes Drug Overdose Information

Date Published

June 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Instructional Material, Case Study, Technical Assistance

Risk Factors That Predict Dropout From Corrections-Based Treatment for Drug Abuse

Journal

Prison Journal

Date Published

1999

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Opioid Epidemic: Moving Toward an Integrated, Holistic Analytical Response

Journal

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Date Published

August 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Forensic Science (2007)

Journal

Analytical Chemistry

Date Published

June 2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Literature Review

Microfluidic Device for Presumptive Testing of Controlled Substances

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

July 2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Test/Measurement, Research (Applied/Empirical)

Michigan School Introduces Naloxone Kits, Training

Date Published

January 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Technical Assistance