Ana Isabel Alves
@anaisabelalves.bsky.social
Forensic Expert on Drugs and Toxicology - LPC PJ
Reposted by Ana Isabel Alves
Correlation and TEDI report on trends in samples analysed by drug checking services (2018-2024). A nugget:
"Cocaine purity increased until 2023, but in the 1st half of 2024 it started to decline, with an increase in detections of the local anaesthetic procaine."
correlation-net.org/2025/01/08/e...
"Cocaine purity increased until 2023, but in the 1st half of 2024 it started to decline, with an increase in detections of the local anaesthetic procaine."
correlation-net.org/2025/01/08/e...
European Drug Checking Trends 2018 – 2024 – European Harm Reduction Network
correlation-net.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Correlation and TEDI report on trends in samples analysed by drug checking services (2018-2024). A nugget:
"Cocaine purity increased until 2023, but in the 1st half of 2024 it started to decline, with an increase in detections of the local anaesthetic procaine."
correlation-net.org/2025/01/08/e...
"Cocaine purity increased until 2023, but in the 1st half of 2024 it started to decline, with an increase in detections of the local anaesthetic procaine."
correlation-net.org/2025/01/08/e...
Reposted by Ana Isabel Alves
Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have been finding procaine crystallization labs - as predicted, cocaine is being adulterated to a significant degree (so low wholesale prices may not be due to oversupply of cocaine after all).
January 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have been finding procaine crystallization labs - as predicted, cocaine is being adulterated to a significant degree (so low wholesale prices may not be due to oversupply of cocaine after all).
Reposted by Ana Isabel Alves
Good story. Guardian journalist wonders round one of the big captagon factories in Damascus
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Sacks of chemicals, plastic fruit … and millions of pills: inside a Damascus Captagon factory
Burnt-out rooms reveal extent of lucrative regime-supported operation to smuggle drug across region
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Good story. Guardian journalist wonders round one of the big captagon factories in Damascus
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Reposted by Ana Isabel Alves
One of the things that makes me happy to work at the EU Drugs Agency - the opportunity to visit real drug experts working in the EU Member States. This week, I joined a group of colleagues visiting the forensic laboratory of the Portuguese Judicial Police . They gave us a very warm welcome!!!
November 22, 2024 at 11:10 PM
One of the things that makes me happy to work at the EU Drugs Agency - the opportunity to visit real drug experts working in the EU Member States. This week, I joined a group of colleagues visiting the forensic laboratory of the Portuguese Judicial Police . They gave us a very warm welcome!!!