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May 23, 2025: Congratulations to Sevil Atasoy, the new INCB President. Supporting member states to stop , & illicit of dangerous substances.

Latest USA CDC synthetic drug overdose provisional data trending in a positive direction - down 27%!

https://cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

May 12, 2025: Honored to join DEA and INL's Emerging Trends in Illicit Synthetic Drugs in the Dominican Republic providing frontline officer access to GRIDS tools that fight drug .

🇺🇳GRIDS issued a global ⚠️special notice on trafficking to its law & regulatory enforcement focal points in 2023. The 🇺🇸 FDA report below shows more vigilance is needed globally.

New “Gas Station Heroin” Tianeptine Product Trend New “Gas Station Heroin” Tianeptine Product Trend

May 9, 2025: Santo Domingo — Gracias a DEA por invitar a la Tecnico Regional Oficial de GRIDS de Latinoamerica y el Caribe al 2º curso sobre tendencias emergentes en dr**as sintéticas para oficiales de la . Un honor presentar el trabajo de GIRDS herramientas para el intercambio de Intel y análisis.
Gracias a INL por el apoyo.

May 9, 2025: Analyse renforcée et coordination opérationnelle via IONICS lors de la réunion INCB GRIDS -forces de l’ordre camerounaises, Interpol et l’OMD, renforçant la coopération et la collaboration face à la menace des NPS, du fentanyl et du nitrazène.

May 12, 2025: Brasil ANVISA e Policia Federal combateram rede criminosa pelo de mais de uma tonelada de para o exterior!

https://gov.br/pf/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/04/pf-combate-rede-criminosa-pelo-trafico-de-mais-de-uma-tonelada-de-medicamentos-para-o-exterior

🇬🇧 PHS Official Scotland RADAR quarterly ​reports adulteration of he**in with continues; novel increasingly encountered.

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/rapid-action-drug-alerts-and-response-radar-quarterly-report/rapid-action-drug-alerts-and-response-radar-quarterly-report-april-2025/main-points/

⚠️New study of hybridizing fluorescence + reflectance spectroscopies accurately identify , & with concentrations offering potential advantages over existing tests.

Field-Portable Technology for Illicit Drug Discrimination via Deep Learning of Hybridized Reflectance/Fluorescence Spectroscopic Fingerprints Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) pose one of the greatest challenges across the illicit drug landscape. They can be highly potent, and coupled with rapid changes in structure, tracking and identifying these drugs is difficult and presents users with a “Russian roulette” if used. Benzodiazepin...

May 8, 2025: Agradecidos al Gob. de Argentina, UPU, UPAEP y Correo Argentino por acoger a 50 funcionarios de postal y aduanas de más de 20 gobiernos en el Taller sobre Seguridad y .
GRIDS aportó inteligencia en tiempo real, tecnología y herramientas para la seguridad.