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  • Toxicol 黑料网, Vol 7(6)

Forensic Examination of Seized Drugs and its New Approaches

David Smiith*
Department of Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
*Corresponding Author: Dr. David Smiith, Department of Toxicology, University of California, Berkele, USA, Email: smiithd123@gmail.com

Received: 09-Dec-2021 / Accepted Date: 23-Dec-2021 / Published Date: 30-Dec-2021

Description

Seized chemicals with a legally acknowledged potential for abuse are referred to as drugs. They include illegal narcotics like heroin and ecstasy, as well as prescription medicines like oxycodone. Detecting the controlled substances is an important step in the fight against drugrelated crime and violence for law enforcement. Seize means to grab anything with zeal, aggression, or force. As a result, once the drugs have been seized and samples have been sent to a forensic lab for testing, we must destroy them. Toxicology in forensics is the study of biological materials for the presence of poisons, such as pharmaceuticals.

Toxicology can provide important details about the types of chemicals present in a person, as well as whether the amount of chemical substances is in line with a therapeutic dosage or exceeds a dangerous level. It involves testing biological materials for the presence of poisons, such as pharmaceuticals. Blood, urine, and hair are the most popular sample types utilized by forensic toxicologists because they are easy to collect in a non-invasive manner and provide a wealth of information on the historical and current influence of numerous chemicals.

Post-mortem forensic toxicology, human performance toxicology, and forensic drug testing are the three primary sub-disciplines of forensic toxicology. The research is primarily aimed at determining the usage and misuse of illegal substances, medications, and anabolic steroids, as well as their methods of action and toxicity. Forensic toxicologists are scientists who analyse bodily fluids and tissue samples for the presence of substances during autopsy. Toxicologists conduct testing on materials gathered by crime scene investigators in laboratories.

Forensic toxicology is for identity and quantification of medicine and pollutants in biological fluids and tissues. A short description of the concept and inherent strengths and boundaries of each method is blanketed. The awareness is on new technologies that deal with modern analytical barriers. An intention of this evaluation is to inspire improvements to enhance our technological skills and to encourage use of those analytical strategies in forensic toxicology exercise. Mass spectrometry methods in forensic toxicology for the identification and quantification of medicine of abuse in biological fluids, tissues, and synthetic samples, focusing on the methodologies are most typically used and it also discusses new methodologies in screening and target forensic analyses, in addition to the evolution of instrumentation in mass spectrometry.

Conclusion

Chromatography strategies with mass spectrometer has been extensively used in pills of abuse analysis, specifically while the screening of the sample is wanted, having separation techniques which include Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS), Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry in tandem (LC-MS/MS) and, two-dimensional Gasoline Chromatography-MS (GC × GC-MS) are mostly used normally. Seized drugs are spoiled by means of flushing or discarding, surrender them to regulation enforcement, or are seeking for help from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). All Seized tablets may be destroyed at the ward/crew using a proprietary Denaturing Package (DOOP), which can be ordered from the SLA pharmacy. The Trust Pharmacy Service will order and keep those kits at the drugstore base.

Citation: Smiith D (2021) Forensic Examination of Seised Drugs and its New Approaches. Toxicol 黑料网 7:166.

Copyright: © 2021 Smiith D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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