The National Institute of Justice’s article, “Identifying New Illicit Drugs and Sounding the Alarm in Real Time,” highlights the work of Dr. Barry Logan, a chemist and forensic toxicologist specializing in identifying new drugs that enter the United States. Dr. Logan uses approaches that quickly alert drug enforcement agencies, crime laboratories, medical examiners, and health officials when those drugs come into the country. The article also demonstrates how U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers can collaborate with chemists to test for many types of known illicit drugs, including fentanyl, and how some drug screenings fail due to new substances that contain changes in molecules of the original drug.
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