Drug abuser, identification

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The mass spectrum of aspirin has been used as an aid in the rapid identification of toxic materials isolated from urine, blood or gastric aspirates of drug abuse patients.36> 37... 

Lastly, on December 1,2003, the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) published an official notice seeking grant applications focusing on the identification, evaluation and development of safe and effective pharmacological treatments for cannabis-related disorders (CRDs). A section of this notice, titled Targeting Children, explained ... 

Identification of key benchmark figures for the level of drug abuse in selected countries (annual prevalence of drug abuse among the general population age 15-64) which then serve as anchor points for subsequent calculations ... 

R. Gill, A. H. Stead, and A. C. Moffat, Analytical aspects of barbiturate abuse Identification of drugs by the effective combination of gas-liquid, high-performance liquid and thin-layer chromatographic techniques, J. Chromatogr., 204 215 (1981). 

Cone, E. J., Yousefnejad, D., Darwin, W. D., and Maguire, T., Testing human hair for drugs of abuse. II. Identification of unique cocaine metabolites in hair of drug abusers and evaluation of decontamination procedures,/. Ana/. Toxicol, 15, 250,1991. 

Identification of the populations at risk patients on long-term opioid therapy for various chronic pain situations (musculoskeletal, neuropathic, sickle cell disease, HIV-related disease, and palliative care), drug abusers, recovering addicts in opioid maintenance programs. 

Long-term monitoring of consumption patterns the determination of the levels of drugs of abuse on a broader temporal scale (e.g., years) would allow for the identification of changes in consumption patterns, linked to the decrease in the consumption of certain substances and the increase of new emerging dmgs. 

In a new development following the emergence of methcathinone abuse in Southern Africa, an attempt to divert 100 kg of ephedrine, an immediate precursor of methcathinone, was uncovered in South Africa when the substance was ordered for delivery to Zimbabwe. The shipment was stopped prior to the identification of the suspects or the laboratory involved. It is therefore unclear whether the illicit drug laboratory was located in Zimbabwe or whether the substance was to have been smuggled back into South Africa to laboratories already existing in that country. 

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