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Session I: The Synthetic Drug Crisis - Identifying NPS in Forensic Casework (Webinar)

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This is Session I of the Best Practices Guidance for Advancing Research Initiatives and Combating the Synthetic Drug Epidemic Online Workshop Series.

This three-part online workshop series is focused on sharing information with the forensic analytical community to promote improved capabilities for novel psychoactive substances (NPS) detection and measurement, as well as outreach to human and public health agencies and practitioners to promote better understanding of patterns of NPS use, diagnosis and treatment in the emergency room, and understanding of their role in determination of cause and manner of death, by collating and sharing information with emergency room physicians, medical toxicologists, and epidemiologists.

The goal of this workshop series to provide resource materials and promote a better understanding to the forensic science practitioner community of evidence based best practices regarding the synthetic drug epidemic.

Date Created: February 3, 2021