New approach to rapidly identify legal highs'

摘要

Chemists from Queen's University, Ireland, have developed a new approach that allows for rapid screening and identification of 'legal highs' or novel psychoactive substances. Published in Analyst (doi: 10.1039/C5AN02326B), the new approach will enable statutory agencies to identify the actual substances contained within the legal highs more quickly, thereby enabling more prompt public health messages to be issued out to communities.