As a Michigan company, Western Slope Laboratory tends to follow local news and headlines. Like many areas in the United States, there has been such an impact on parents, schools, and health systems by designer drugs like Spice, K2, and bath salts. Western Slope has tested for these compounds in Read More
Krokodil (Desomorphine)
ToxTalk, the Society of Forensic Toxicologist newsletter, recently had an article on krokodil. Krokodil is a street drug developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s. Krokodil is a derivative of morphine called desomorphine. The use of desomorphine has reached the United States according to Read More
Western Slope Lab in war on Designer Drugs
Popular culture has made it impossible to get away from the perception that designer drugs are ravaging America. NCIS (S11, Ep7) recently had a suspect who was aggressive and violent; the character Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) asked if bath salts were the culprits. The drugs in the suspect’s Read More