How do you identify something no one has a test for? Designer drugs replicate the effects of known, illicit drugs but evade law enforcement. The chemical structure variations that help these compounds ...

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NPS, colloquially known as " designer drugs," " legal highs," "herbal highs" and "bath salts" are drugs not covered by the UN's 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs or the 1971 Convention on ...

Long Island prosecutors are trying to determine if “designer drugs” played a role in the mysterious Montauk Yacht Club death of fashion designer Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, Suffolk County District ...

Manatee could become the second county in Florida to ban kratom and other designer drugs. Sarasota County approved a ban in 2014. While kratom was already restricted to adults over 21, an emergency ...

How does one identify something no one has a test for? Designer drugs replicate the effects of known, illicit drugs but evade law enforcement. The chemical structure variations that help these ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A partial autopsy has revealed that former One Direction singer Liam Payne had multiple substances in his system when he plunged to his death from a third-floor balcony in Buenos ...

Mass spectrometer instruments (top image) can help detect known, illicit drugs in human urine. For new psychoactive substances, a computer-predicted database provides theoretical mass spectra (bottom ...