Forensic laboratory backlogs are replete with suspected drug samples. Shifting analysis toward the point ... To this end, we coupled Raman spectroscopy and paper spray ionization mass spectrometry ...

A method some Ohio prisons use to prevent drugs from being trafficked into facilities through the mail is being challenged in ...

Law enforcement agencies across California, including the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, are contending with novel attempts ...

“It provides a lifesaving opportunity for a health professional to talk to people about what’s in their drugs and the risks ... containing highly potent synthetic opioids means that what ...

The state’s peak medical body is calling for permanent pill testing following the discovery of extremely potent synthetic opioids ... about what’s in their drugs and the risks involved.

Officials said Hart admitted that in late 2023, he and others inside the Wyatt Detention Center conspired to obtain and smuggle papers soaked with K2, a synthetic marijuana, into the facility.

SINGAPORE - Synthetic drugs like fentanyl have become so potent that illegal drug producers are intentionally weakening the dosage to prevent the drugs from killing their customers, said a veteran ...

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(U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/X) United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Wednesday that three “large-scale synthetic drug production labs” had been ...

Deaths from synthetic opioids - chiefly fentanyl, which has fueled the overdose crisis during the past decade - played a role in the majority of drug deaths but tumbled by nearly 28,000 fatalities ...