The following report summarizes a study performed on seized drug exhibits collected in two
US states to evaluate the presence and identification of cutting agents. Aliquots of seized …

Forensic laboratories mainly focus on the qualification and the quantitation of the illicit drug
under analysis as both aspects are used for judiciary purposes. Therefore, information …

Cocaine is usually sold as a white powder and can contain several adulterants and diluents,
known as cutting agents. The cutting agents play an important role in the identification of …

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

The extraction of basic, acidic, and neutral drugs of abuse from a low volume of urine (0.2
mL) using disposable pipette extraction (DPX) is described. DPX is a solid-phase extraction …

The Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis is a comprehensive chemical and analytic
reference for the forensic analysis of illicit drugs. With chapters written by leading …

As drug overdose deaths across the United States continue to rise, there is increasing
interest in field testing of illicit substances. This work discusses a paperbased analytical …

The illicit drug cutting represents a complex problem that requires the sharing of knowledge
from addiction studies, toxicology, criminology and criminalistics. Therefore, cutting is not …

Here, gas chromatography with nitrogen phosphorous detector (GC–NPD) method was
developed and validated for the quantification of cocaine and adulterants (caffeine, 4 …

Drug checking services are being utilized worldwide to provide people who use drugs
information on the composition and contents of their drugs as a tool for harm reduction and …