Gathering evidence to determine the cause of death is paramount in the service of the public
interest and the judicial process. To this end, accurate identification of drugs present in …

In the medical examiner setting, comprehensive drug screening is an essential analytical
tool in the investigation of cause and manner of death. We have validated non-targeted and …

Introduction Targeted screening methods that cover a broad range of common drugs and
drugs of abuse are essential for forensic laboratories. The most common techniques used …

A comprehensive screening method that is specific, accurate and customizable is necessary
in any forensic toxicology laboratory. Most laboratories utilize some form of immunoassay …

Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are newly emerging compounds, natural and
synthetic, that are often sold as “legal” alternatives to controlled substances. These …

When faced with increasing drug‐related deaths and decline in practicing forensic
pathologists, the need to quickly identify toxicology‐related deaths is evident in order to …

Background A novel forensic method was developed to quantitate 39 drugs of toxicological
interest for ante-mortem and postmortem analysis. This method was created to combine and …

Systematic toxicological approaches that employ both ideology changes and improvements
in instrumentation and sample extraction allow for improved toxicology testing efficiency …

Screening of postmortem blood and urine samples is used to identify compounds that may
have contributed to an individual's death. Toxicologically significant compounds detected by …

Postmortem drug findings yield important analytical evidence in medical examiner
casework, and chromatography coupled with nominal mass spectrometry (MS) serves as the …