Building a better database to detect designer drugs (IMAGE)

American Chemical Society

Building a better database to detect designer drugs

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Mass spectrometer instruments (top image) can help detect known, illicit drugs in human urine. For new psychoactive substances, a computer-predicted database provides theoretical mass spectra (bottom image) that could help detect these designer drugs and their metabolites in urine samples.

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Tytus Mak (top image); Hani Habra (bottom image).

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