Controlled Drug Analysis

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78801-534-9
Verlag: RSC Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Development of new techniques and methods for analysis of controlled substances brings a different way of considering drug analysis, which is articulated for the first time in this new text. In addition to a modern treatment of the widely known drugs (e.g. cannabis, heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, ring substituted amphetamines) and pharmaceuticals which are used as recreational drugs (e.g. barbiturates, benzodiazepines), the book considers prominent drug classes that have not yet received systematic treatment in a textbook (for example synthetic cannabinoids, piperazines, cathinones, fentanyls). Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes, the book includes methods for drug analysis and comparison using physical, biologically based, comparative and numerical techniques. It will also serve as a reference point for research students and practising forensic scientists. It introduces statistical methods for drug sample comparison and the appropriateness of some of the statistical techniques for drug analysis and examines their use. It also considers newly developed analytical methods and significant legislative changes.

Aimed at academics delivering forensic science courses in particular, it could also be used by chemistry, biochemistry, criminalistics, criminology and law, and policing students on MSc forensic science courses, and postgraduate research candidates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Michael D

Gautam, Lata

Grela, Agatha

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Legislative Systems and Controlled Drugs

- Drug Sampling

- The Analysis of Cannabis and Products

- The Analysis of Synthetic Cannabinoids

- The Analysis of Hallucinogenic Drugs from Plants and Fungi

- The Analysis of Khat and the Cathinones

- The Analysis of Opiate Drugs and Heroin

- The Analysis of Amphetamines, Ring Substituted Amphetamines and Related Compounds

- The Analysis of Barbiturate Drugs

- The Analysis of Phenyl- and Benzylpiperazines

- The Analysis of Cocaine

- The Analysis of Benzodiazepines

- The Analysis of Fentanyl and Analogues

- The Analysis of Phencyclidine and Ketamine

Über Autor(innen)

Grela, Agatha
Agatha Grela obtained her PhD in chemistry in 2015 from the Jagiellonian University in
Krakow. Before joining Anglia Ruskin University, she worked at a forensic
toxicology lab in Poland where she analysed evidence including suspected street
drugs and biological samples (blood and urine). Currently, as a postdoctoral
researcher, she is using her expertise as an analytical chemist in a project on
the simultaneous gas chromatographic–mass spectrometry based analysis of
drugs associated with drug facilitated sexual assaults from spiked drinks.

Cole, Michael D
In 2001, Michael Cole joined Anglia Ruskin University as Professor of Forensic Science
and Head of the Department of Forensic Science. At the time he was the
youngest full Professor of Forensic Science in the world. Mike became Deputy
Dean for Research and External Income in the Faculty of Science and
Technology in 2014. Mike's research interests include drug chemistry, drug
profiling and comparison, drug toxicity and the development of analytical
techniques for novel psychoactive substances. Mike has over 150 journal
publications, conference presentations, books, book chapters and other outputs
related to forensic science.

Gautam, Lata
Lata Gautam obtained a PhD in Forensic Science in 2007 from Anglia Ruskin University.
She also holds an MSc and BSc from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. She has
worked in the Toxicology & Chemistry Unit and the Biology & Serology Unit at
the National Forensic Science Laboratory, Nepal, where she analysed forensic
case samples. Lata’s areas of expertise and interest lie in drug binding to hair
components (melanin, keratin), drug analysis of biological samples (blood, urine)
and alternative matrices (hair, nail, saliva). She is interested in research work
involving chromatographic, spectrometric and spectroscopic techniques.