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Profile of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and other synthetic drugs in seized materials analysed in a Brazilian forensic laboratory

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all our laboratory colleagues, especially Ms. Cláudia Ricoy for encouraging us to carry out this work, and the trainees Mr. Luan Carlos Vieira Alves, Ms. Fernanda Michele Viana and Ms. Claudinete Vieira de Oliveira by helping us with data typing.

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  1. Seção Técnica de Física e Química Legal - Divisão de Laboratório, Instituto de Criminalística da Polícia Civil de Minas Gerais, Rua Juiz de Fora 400, CEP 30180-060,, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Yuri Machado, José Coelho Neto & Rogério Araújo Lordeiro

  2. Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, CEP 31270-901,, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Yuri Machado & Evandro Piccin

  3. Departamento de Física e Química, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Avenida Dom José Gaspar 500, CEP 30535-901,, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    José Coelho Neto

  4. Departamento de Patologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, CEP 31270-901,, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Monique Ferreira Silva

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Machado, Y., Coelho Neto, J., Lordeiro, R.A. et al. Profile of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and other synthetic drugs in seized materials analysed in a Brazilian forensic laboratory. Forensic Toxicol 37, 265–271 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11419-018-0456-3

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