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Positivity of New Synthetic Cannabinoid 4F-MDMB-BICA Increasing in U.S. as Prevalence of 5F-MDMB-PICA Wanes

February 8, 2021

4F-MDMB-BICA was first identified in the United States (U.S.) in plant-like material seized by law enforcement in May 2020 and soon after in toxicology casework in July 2020, with concurrent…
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Prevalence of Synthetic Cannabinoid MDMB-4en-PINACA Continues to Increase in the United States and Internationally

October 15, 2020

MDMB-4en-PINACA was first identified in toxicology casework in the United States in September 2019; however, its emergence dates back earlier to seized drug testing from Europe in June 2018. MDMB-4en-PINACA…
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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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