The recreational use of opioid drugs is a global threat to public health and safety. In
particular, an epidemic of opioid overdose fatalities is being driven by illicitly manufactured …

Over the past few years, there has been an emerging number of new psychoactive drugs.
These drugs are frequently mentioned as “legal highs”,“herbal highs”,“bath salts” and …

A rapid lateral flow immunoassay is presented that uses carboxyl-modified
superparamagnetic nanoparticles as labels that can be quantified by highly sensitive multi …

Recently, synthetic opioid-related overdose fatalities, led by illicitly manufactured fentanyl
and analogs, increased at an alarming rate, posing a global public health threat. New …

Illicit fentanyl and analogues have been involved in many fatalities and cases of intoxication
across the United States over the last decade, and are becoming a health concern in …

Detection of new psychoactive substances and synthetic opioids is generally performed by
means of targeted methods in mass spectrometry, as they generally provide adequate …

Testing for drugs in hair to document exposure is receiving more and more attention by
scientists and lawyers due to is long detection window, particularly when compared to blood …

Fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and other novel synthetic opioids (NSO), including nitazene
analogs, prevail in forensic toxicology casework. Analytical methods for identifying these …

We established GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS analysis methods for nine fentanyl drugs in hair
samples. Human hairs were prepared by soaking in a solution of water-dimethyl sulfoxide …

Seizures of synthetic opioids have increased since 2012, with a 45% increase in synthetic
opioid related deaths between 2016 and 2017 in US. Recently, concerns have arisen …