Drugs of Abuse Analysis: How LC-MS/MS Reduced Run Times by 66% and Tripled Throughput by SCIEX Community | 0 CommentsElevate Performance in Your Forensic Toxicology LabYou only need to skim through the United Nations World Drug Report 2018 to see that drug abuse is escalating. Associated with numerous medical, social, and legal problems, it comes as no surprise that ‘drugs of abuse’...
Looking for Ethanol Metabolites and Barbiturates in Urine? Get the Fast and Sensitive ‘Two Bird, One Stone’ Method by SCIEX Community | 0 CommentsAlcohol is legal and widely available, but it is an intoxicating and addictive substance that can have harmful effects on the human mind and body. It reduces inhibitions and distorts judgment and rational decision making, making it the number one cause of criminal...
5 Demands of Forensic Toxicologists and the Ultra-Fast Method That Meets Them by SCIEX Community | 0 CommentsThere just isn’t a screening approach available that can give us everything we need when throughput is the priority. Sound familiar? For many toxicology labs, there is a misconception that compromises need to be made when it comes to high throughput drug screening....
10 Minutes in One Shot. That’s How Quickly You Can Screen 664 Forensics Compounds by SCIEX Community | 0 CommentsDrug testing is a moving target. As novel psychoactive substances (NPS) rapidly emerge as a new class of designer stimulants (DS), global use has reached an all-time high over the last decade. Supposedly ‘legal’ alternatives to internationally controlled drugs, these...
Drugs of Abuse Analysis: How LC-MS/MS Reduced Run Times by 66% and Tripled Throughput by SCIEX Community | Blogs, ForensicElevate Performance in Your Forensic Toxicology LabYou only need to skim through the United Nations World Drug Report 2018 to see that drug abuse is escalating. Associated with numerous medical, social, and legal problems, it comes as no surprise that ‘drugs of abuse’...
Looking for Ethanol Metabolites and Barbiturates in Urine? Get the Fast and Sensitive ‘Two Bird, One Stone’ Method by SCIEX Community | Blogs, ForensicAlcohol is legal and widely available, but it is an intoxicating and addictive substance that can have harmful effects on the human mind and body. It reduces inhibitions and distorts judgment and rational decision making, making it the number one cause of criminal...
5 Demands of Forensic Toxicologists and the Ultra-Fast Method That Meets Them by SCIEX Community | Blogs, ForensicThere just isn’t a screening approach available that can give us everything we need when throughput is the priority. Sound familiar? For many toxicology labs, there is a misconception that compromises need to be made when it comes to high throughput drug screening....
10 Minutes in One Shot. That’s How Quickly You Can Screen 664 Forensics Compounds by SCIEX Community | Blogs, ForensicDrug testing is a moving target. As novel psychoactive substances (NPS) rapidly emerge as a new class of designer stimulants (DS), global use has reached an all-time high over the last decade. Supposedly ‘legal’ alternatives to internationally controlled drugs, these...
Fast Novel Psychoactive Substance Testing, At Your Fingertips by SCIEX Community | Blogs, ForensicWhy Dried Blood Spot Analysis Is the Way to Go for Novel Psychoactive Substances(And Why You Need This SCIEX LC-MS/MS Method) Anyone with children will remember that moment in the hospital when the nurse pricks the heel of your tiny new baby to squeeze out a few drops...
Fast and Simultaneous Analysis of Ethanol Metabolites and Barbiturates by SCIEX Community | Blogs, ForensicWhile most analytes in forensic applications analyze well with positive ionization, there are analytes that show better ionization efficiency with negative ionization, for example, acidic compounds. These analytes include ethanol metabolites such as ethyl glucuronide (ETG), ethyl sulfate (ETS), and the barbiturates such as amobarbital, butabarbital, butalbital, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, and secobarbital.
LC-MS/MS Screening of 64 New Psychoactive Substances Using Dried Blood Spots by SCIEX Community | Blogs, ForensicThere is a lot you can tell from a droplet of blood as it’s snapshot of what could be present in a body at any given moment. In the following application note, LC-MS/MS Screening of 64 New Psychoactive Substances Using Dried Blood Spots, researchers did just...