Abstract
Analysis of drugs of abuse constitutes a major portion of work for many crime laboratories. The most important and most utilized technique for the screening and identification of solid-dosage drugs is gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). A detailed practical procedure is described for the rapid screening and identification by GC-MS of most drugs of abuse that are commonly encountered in forensic drug laboratories.
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Brettell, T.A., Lum, B.J. (2018). Analysis of Drugs of Abuse by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS). In: Musah, R. (eds) Analysis of Drugs of Abuse. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1810. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8579-1_3
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