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 …

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 …

The aim of the present study was to investigate the composition of heroin, amphetamine,
and cocaine seized in the police district of Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark …

Background Illicit drug profiling can provide knowledge about illicit drug markets, informing
on the level of distribution and its evolution in space and time. Illicit drug profiling is usually …

This article discusses drug purity, frequency of appearance and concentration ranges of
adulterants of 471 illicit cocaine and 962 illicit heroin samples seized in Luxembourg from …

Screening of seized cocaine powders is routinely performed by means of colour tests. An
alternative fast screening technique is Mid-InfraRed (MIR) spectroscopy. In the context of …

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 …

Illicit cocaine samples (156), seized on Rome's illegal market between January 1996 and
June 1997, were examined. Both the purity of the cocaine and the presence of substances …

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 …

Direct determination of cocaine in untreated seized samples has been made based on
diffuse reflectance measurements of the near infrared (NIR) radiation through samples …