Keeping up to date with New Psychoactive Substances is hard! We've assembled a crack team of international experts to help us do just that:

• Michael Evans-Brown, EUDA
• Jared Brown, UNODC
• Alex Krotulski, CFSRE

Hosted by TIAFT NPS Committee chair, Svante Vikingsson.
This episode features:

• THC-P - fully synthetic or semi-synthetic cannabinoid?
• the emerging etomidate and analogues
• the intriguing mystery of BTMPS-adulterant or precursor
• the 1000th NPS reported by EUDA and much more

These updates will be a regular part of our podcast schedule, letting you know about recent developments in NPS markets, detection and harms.

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The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT.

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Peter is joined by Bulletin editors Rebecca, Samantha and Luke for a rundown of the latest Bulletin.

For more information on the Bulletin, including how to submit content, click here.

Contact us at toxpod@tiaft.org

Find out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.org

The Toxpod is a production of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. The opinions expressed by the hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of TIAFT.

You can send us a text message using this link!

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We look at 5 recent publications in the field of toxicology.

1. Ning He, et al. Contextual bias in forensic toxicology decisions: A follow-up empirical study from China. (2024) Journal of Forensic Sciences, doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.15520.
2. Kesmen, E. et al. Bioinformatics-driven untargeted metabolomic profiling for clinical screening of methamphetamine abuse. (2024) Forensic Toxicology, doi: 10.1007/s11419-024-00703-2.
3. Schuller, M. et al. Electromembrane extraction of drugs of abuse and prescription drugs from micropulverized hair. (2024) Journal of Analytical Toxicology, doi: 10.1093/jat/bkae051.
4. Schackmuth, M. et al. Identification of fentanyl analogs and potential biomarkers in urine using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and liquid chromatography-quadrupole/time of flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q/TOF-MS). (2024) Journal of Chromatography B, doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2024.124303.
5. Trobbiani, S. et al. Increasing the linear dynamic range in LC-MS: is it valid to use a less abundant isotopologue? (2017) Drug Testing and Analysis, doi: 10.1002/dta.2175

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