AIMC Topic: Illicit Drugs

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Consumption of illegal home-made alcohol in Malawi: A neglected public health threat.

Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)
This study assessed the ethanol and methanol contents of homemade spirit (Kachasu) sold in Blantyre, Malawi. The likelihood of ethanol and methanol toxicity, respectively, was determined through Monte Carlo simulations using reported Kachasu intake v...

Intranasal Abuse Potential, Pharmacokinetics, and Safety of Once-Daily, Single-Entity, Extended-Release Hydrocodone (HYD) in Recreational Opioid Users.

Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
OBJECTIVES: A once-daily, extended-release hydrocodone bitartrate tablet with abuse-deterrent properties (Hysingla ERĀ® [HYD]) is available for the treatment of chronic pain in appropriate patients. This study evaluated the intranasal abuse potential ...

Field-Portable Technology for Illicit Drug Discrimination via Deep Learning of Hybridized Reflectance/Fluorescence Spectroscopic Fingerprints.

Analytical chemistry
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) pose one of the greatest challenges across the illicit drug landscape. They can be highly potent, and coupled with rapid changes in structure, tracking and identifying these drugs is difficult and presents users wi...