Recent biosensing advances in the rapid detection of illicit drugs

SR Ahmed, R Chand, S Kumar, N Mittal… - TrAC Trends in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Illicit drug-related incidents such as traffic accidents and sexual assaults are gaining
epidemic proportions worldwide. Besides, there is the rampant use of drugs at some critical …

A review on Illicit drugs and biosensing advances for its rapid detection

N Anzar, S Suleman, S Parvez, J Narang - Process Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Drugs are extracted from plants and synthetic chemicals for their medicinal values and
healing properties, these various drugs present worldwide can be of uncountable …

Do they need to be tested to be deterred? Exploring the impact of exposure to roadside drug testing on drug driving

L Mills, J Freeman, A Parkes, J Davey - Journal of safety research, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction: Maximizing the deterrent effects of Roadside Drug Testing (RDT) operations
remains critical for improving road safety. While preliminary research has explored the …

Synthetic cannabinoids in hair—Prevalence of use in abstinence control programs for driver's license regranting in Germany

J Kutzler, AE Polettini, S Bleicher… - Drug testing and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Although the use, structural variety, and prevalence of synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) have
steadily increased on the drug market, they are rarely analyzed in abstinence control …

Probe electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry for the detection and quantification of benzodiazepines

P Griffeuille, S El Balkhi, S Dulaurent… - Therapeutic drug …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background: Legally prescribed benzodiazepines (BZDs) and designer BZDs are widely
misused and must be determined in multiple contexts (eg, overdose, drug-facilitated sexual …

[HTML][HTML] Driving under the influence of drugs: correlation between blood psychoactive drug concentrations and cognitive impairment. A narrative review taking into …

A Blandino, R Cotroneo, S Tambuzzi… - Forensic science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driving under the influence of alcohol has been shown to increase the risk of involvement in
road traffic collisions (RTCs) however, less is known about the effects of illicit drugs, and a …

Gender differences in driving under the influence of psychoactive drugs: evidence mapping of real case studies and meta-analysis

G Pelletti, R Boscolo-Berto, R Barone… - Forensic science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Very few studies have examined predictors of Driving Under the Influence (DUI)
as a function of gender. This oversight is relevant, because analyzing gender differences …

Determination of amphetamines, ketamine and their metabolites in hair with high-speed grinding and solid-phase microextraction followed by LC-MS

L Meng, Y Dai, C Chen, J Zhang - Forensic sciences research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A novel hair sample pre-treatment method based on high-speed grinding and
solid-phase microextraction (SPME) had been applied for the determination of …

Quantification of cyanide metabolite 2-aminothiazoline-4-carboxylic acid in postmortem dried blood spot samples by liquid chromatography–tandem mass …

T Nishio, Y Toukairin, T Hoshi, T Arai… - … of Chromatography B, 2023 - Elsevier
Aminothiazoline-4-carboxylic acid (ATCA), which is produced by the reaction of cyanide with
endogenous cystine, is a promising biomarker of cyanide exposure because of its …

R-(−)-ketamine modifies behavioral effects of morphine predicting efficacy as a novel therapy for opioid use disorder1

JM Witkin, J Kranzler, K Kaniecki, P Popik… - Pharmacology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Substance abuse disorder continues to have devastating consequences for individuals and
society and current therapies are not sufficient to provide the magnitude of medical impact …