Using Web searches to track interest in synthetic cannabinoids (aka ‘herbal incense’)

Synthetic Cannabinoids Herbal Incense / Herbal Blends

Synthetic cannabinoids in herbal products

Background The recent appearance of synthetic cannabinoids in herbal products ('Spice'), easily available over the internet, has brought to the attention of the international community, the need for sharing of information and greater awareness of this phenomenon. This report was prepared pursuant to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs Resolution 53/11 (Para 6: Requests the United Nations Office on...

DART-MS as a preliminary screening method for "herbal incense": chemical analysis of synthetic cannabinoids.

Direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) served as a method for rapid high-throughput screening of six commercially available "Spice" products, detecting various combinations of five synthetic cannabinoids. Direct analysis in real time is an ambient ionization process that, along with high mass accuracy time-of-flight (TOF)-MS to 0.0001 Da, was employed to establish the presence...

Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue

Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that threatens over half of the world's population. Despite being endemic to more than 100 countries, government-led efforts and tools for timely identification and tracking of new infections are still lacking in many affected areas. Multiple methodologies that leverage the use of Internet-based data sources have been proposed as a way to complement dengue sur...

Use of SPME-HS-GC-MS for the Analysis of Herbal Products Containing Synthetic Cannabinoids The increasing prevalence and use of herbal mixtures containing synthetic cannabinoids

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