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NPS in the News

Nightlife Is Reopening, But the Drugs Have Changed—And So Have We

July 1, 2021

Across the United States, as COVID restrictions ease and concert venues and clubs reopen, millions of people are making a surreal transition from quarantine to nightlife. For those who use…
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Why Isotonitazene Is Not Yet the “New Fentanyl”

May 21, 2020

BY SESSI KUWABARA BLANCHARD | SOURCE: FILTERMAG.ORG In the span of about a year, isotonitazene, a novel psychoactive substance (NPS), went from being practically unheard of to being implicated in…
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OPIOIDS WEBINAR: hosted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine

April 24, 2020

Featuring CFSRE Executive Director, Dr. Barry Logan The opioid epidemic is of great national importance. Addressing the associated public-health and safety concerns will require efforts and advances made in many…
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Dr. Alex Krotulski speaks to AZoLifeSciences about the importance of detecting new New Synthetic Cannabinoids

March 26, 2020

Photo and Article Courtesy of AZOLifeSciences I work for a forensic laboratory and we are seeing large numbers of deaths occurring with synthetic cannabinoids. They are not necessarily the same…
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40 Americans Are Dying Every Month From Taking this New, Legal Opioid

March 12, 2020

By Mike Power / Courtesy of Vice.com Isotonitazene is a novel synthetic opioid that has not yet been banned. But deaths are on the rise. The appearance of isotonitazene in North America’s narcotic…
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NPS 2020 Symposium Email Sign Up

January 30, 2020

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Philly overdose drug may have contained toxic designer drug

June 26, 2019

In July 2018, more than 160 individuals overdosed in one weekend in the city of Philadelphia on a heroin supply marked “Santa Muerte.” This not only impacted hundreds of drug…
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The Study of “Synthetic Cannabinoids” Condemns Punitive Marijuana Laws

June 26, 2019

Synthetic cannabinoids are among the classes of NPS cause widespread intoxications and adverse events. CFSRE is currently funded to produce quarterly trend reports regarding the positivity of specific synthetic cannabinoids….
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Identifying New Illicit Drugs and Sounding the Alarm in Real Time

June 26, 2019

CFSRE’s Barry Logan gave a presentation at NIST (National Institute for Standard and Technology) on the ever-changing landscape of NPS and how NMS Labs and CFSRE are counteracting changes in…
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Santa Muerte Mass Overdose Outbreak

January 24, 2019

The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education at the Fredric Rieders Family Foundation received notification over the weekend from July 20 to 22, 2018, that hospitals in the Greater…
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