Identification of illegal substances obtained during a police investigation

Identification of illegal substances obtained during a police investigation

Introduction

Drug use has increased in several countries in recent years, also increasing its accessibility, its implications for social behavior and the importance of clinical and forensic determination. For this reason, it is interesting to address the issue of rapid methods for analysis of these compounds in biological fluids, in combination with simple procedures for sample preparation and data interpretation. Perhaps the greatest experience in the subject the U.S. has probably tops the list because of heavy users. Agencies like the DEA (U.S. Drug Administration Enforcement) U.S. established forms of analysis and display cases they arise from use of mixtures of drugs and innovations to consumer tests negative result. 

The purpose of writing this paper is to give the readers an idea about the techniques and method to check the quality and size of the drugs. The following paper based on a scenario in which the police department contracted a third party to check quality of the drugs during the raid and to provide strategies from preventing the society from the illegal drugs.

Discussion

Prior to the establishment of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), a fragmented approach to fighting the “War on Drugs” existed in the United States. The DEA has 227 field offices, 80 offices in 58 countries, and approximately 5,600 Special Agents. Under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Justice, the DEA is the lead agency on the domestic enforcement of drug policy, and tasked with the war on drug smuggling entering the United States borders.

The DEA emerged under an agency reorganization plan signed by President Richard Nixon on March 28, 1973. The plan consolidated and reorganized a federal agency to coordinate the government's drug control mission. Prior to the development of the DEA, there were several overlapping agencies. Moreover, during that era, the president's reorganization plan corrected poor unity of command and eliminated multiple agency responsibility for drug law enforcement.

Originally, President Lyndon Johnson, President Nixon's predecessor, consolidated the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), which had jurisdiction in narcotics and marijuana cases, and the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (BDAC), which had law enforcement jurisdiction over dangerous drugs, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. These fragmented agencies reorganized under the Justice Department through the creation of the former Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD).

Under President Nixon's plan, the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE) and the federal offices of BNDD merged to form the current DEA to fight the national and international War on Drugs. Selecting the right special agents to serve in the DEA was of primary importance in establishing the new DEA identity (Justice, 2013). The following demonstration is all about the drugs that found on the criminal scene and thus the author provide different tools to analyze the quality of the drugs.

Immunoassays Testing

Immunoassays are commonly used to perform analysis early in hospitals, rehabilitation centers and / or laboratories "quick response", but these tests can detect only a limited group of substances at low ...