ABSTRACT

Provides a self-teaching reference text for forensic chemistry laboratories and law enforcement agencies world-wide. The text includes sections on the importance of physical examinations of drugs and their wrappings; and the use of gas and high-performance chromatography.

1 The drug chemist and forensic science, 2 Physical description of drugs of abuse, 3 Presumptive tests for drugs of abuse, 4 Thon layer chromatography of drugs of abuse, 5 Gas chromatpgraphy of drugs of abuse, 6 High performance liquid chromatography of drugs of abuse, 7 Ultra violet spectroscopy of drugs of abuse, 8 Infra red spectroscopy of drugs of abuse, 9 Gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy of drugs of abuse.