Alex J Krotulski

TL;DR: Recommendations for future toxicological testing of novel psychoactive substances include development and management of a national monitoring program to provide real-time clinical and toxicological data, confirmed analytically, on emerging drugs and their known toxidromes and side effect profiles.

TL;DR: Toxicologists, medical examiners, and coroners should be aware of novel opioids outside the standard scope of testing, especially in medicolegal death investigations, and public health officials should counsel about potent new drugs and the dangers of opioid use.

TL;DR: Using LC-QTOF-MS, the agreement between paired oral fluid and urine testing for fentanyl detection indicates a role for oral fluid testing in surveillance for nonpharmaceutical fentanyl.

TL;DR: This study is the first to map the metabolic profiles of U-47700 and U-49900 using human liver microsomes, as well as theFirst to report any literature involving U- 49900 and analysis of case specimens.

TL;DR: A study performed on seized drug exhibits collected in two U.S. states to evaluate the presence and identification of cutting agents found with several drugs of abuse found active compounds detected overall included caffeine, quinine/quinidine, levamisole, and procaine.