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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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