Wearable electrochemical sensors capable of noninvasive monitoring of chemical markers
represent a rapidly emerging digital-health technology. Recent advances toward wearable …

With laboratories seeking to expand analytical capabilities and create multi-class, multi-
analyte methods, there has been a shift toward generic sample clean-up techniques such as …

Forensic Chemistry, Third Edition, the new edition of this ground-breaking book, continues to
serve as the leading forensic chemistry text on the market. Fully updated, this edition …

Xylazine, an alpha-2 receptor agonist used in veterinary medicine for its sedative and
muscle-relaxant effects, has been reported in forensic toxicology casework since the 1980s …

In the context of the current US injection drug use epidemic, targeted public health harm
reduction strategies have traditionally focused on overdose prevention and reducing …

Abstract Background and Aims Tracking specific drugs contributing to drug overdose deaths
is limited when relying on death certificate (DC) data alone. This study aimed to determine …

Mass spectrometry has been the “gold standard” for drugs of abuse (DoA) analysis for many
decades because of the selectivity and sensitivity it affords. Recent progress in all aspects of …

Drug overdose deaths in the United States are a substantial public health issue. The number
of annual reported drug overdose deaths increased roughly 3-fold, from 23500 in 2002 to 70 …

The cutting agents, classified as diluents (pharmacologically inactive) or adulterants
(pharmacologically active), are substances commonly used to cut drugs of abuse to increase …

The smuggling of illicit drugs urges the development of new tools for rapid on-site
identification in cargos. Current methods rely on presumptive color tests and portable …