Drugs of abuse

LGC's drugs services cover all types of drugs of abuse and all the different ways they can be analysed.

Routine services are bundled together into packages for specific purposes providing rapid, cost effective analysis and interpretation. Such services include identification, weight and purity analysis to support simple possession cases and test purchase operations and revealing drugs concealed in various everyday items.

In more complex enquiries, and reflecting our full service status, we offer a wide range of additional types of support. These include site visits to cannabis grow rooms and suspected illicit laboratories, and enhanced analysis in the laboratory to identify new types of drugs or to explore links between drug seizures and establish chains of supply.

Analyses are used sequentially on a mix and match basis to suit the needs of individual cases and to keep costs down. They include full drug profiling to identify adulterants and cutting agents as well as principal drug components, and examination and analysis of drug packaging.

Packaging can provide particularly powerful links between drug seizures, and people and places - augmented by other types of evidence such as DNA, fingerprints, clothing fibres which may be associated with it.

Also available from LGC Forensics are Home Office approved training courses designed to enable police personnel to carry out screening tests for commonly encountered drugs, and a variety of other courses on, for example, how to recognise different types of drugs and take the best samples for analysis. LGC Forensics also regularly publishes drugs trends statistics and other information and advisory bulletins

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