Marijuana (ie, cannabis) and its derivatives are considered the most commonly used of illicit
drugs. Within the last two decades, phytocannabinoids and their synthetic analogues have …

The years of 2019–2022 were extraordinary challenging times, in which COVID-19 had
infected and killed millions of people worldwide. Governments struggled to impose …

Introduction The analysis of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) represents a challenge in
forensic toxicology, due to the high number of compounds characterized by different …

The increasing demand for rapid and sensitive roadside identification of trace illegal drugs
drives the development of high-performance miniature mass spectrometric instrumentation …

Introduction Psychoactive medicines, such as benzodiazepines and Z-drugs (BdZ),
antidepressants and antipsychotics (AA) and medical opioids (MO), have an impairing effect …

The aim of the current study was to develop and validate an analytical method to determine
whether drugs of abuse (DOA) were present in oral fluid (OF) using a newly-developed …

This study aims to investigate the prevalence of alcohol and drugs of abuse in Italian drivers
involved in road traffic crashes between 2011 and 2018. Toxicological analyses were …

Introduction Immunoassay (IA) tests are not widely applied in post-mortem samples, since
they are based on technologies requiring relatively non-viscous specimens, and compounds …

Immunoassay tests are used in clinical and forensic toxicology laboratories to determine
illicit drug use in biological samples. Therefore, this study aims to optimize the cutoff …

Background. In forensic toxicology, positive immunoassay (IA) test results do not hold
forensic validity and need to be confirmed with mass spectrometry (MS). On the other hand …