SWGDRUG's Mission:
SWGDRUG works to improve the quality of the forensic examination of seized drugs and to respond to the needs of the forensic community by supporting the development of internationally accepted minimum standards, identifying best practices within the international community, and providing resources to help laboratories meet these standards. |
| We are now on Bluesky! Follow us at @swgdrug.bsky.social |
| What's New: |
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A new resource provided by NIST, the Lower Confidence Bounds for Seized Material Sampling App, is now available on the Tools page under Resources! |
| The Lower Confidence Bounds for Seized Material Sampling App developed by NIST is a statistical sampling calculator that can be used during the qualitative analysis of multi-unit seized drug material to report inferences on a population. Similar to many other resources for this task, this app uses the hypergeometric distribution as the model for calculating probabilities of certain outcomes of analyses of samples from seized drug populations. This application offers seized drug analysts the ability to customize the confidence level, minimum proportion to be inferred, or the number of samples to be selected for testing. Importantly, it allows seized drug analysts to report population inferences when one or more negative results are encountered during qualitative testing. The app also offers an embedded random number generator tool. |
| Associated documentation providing an overview of the app is also available. |
| Additional Resources: |
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A recording of our webinars are available for viewing: Webinar #1 and Webinar #2 |
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Check out the latest January 2025 SWGDRUG Bulletin. |
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SWGDRUG Recommendations Version 8.2 was approved on June 27, 2024. |
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Drug Monographs (being updated regularly), please note the table is sortable. |
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Searchable Mass Spectral Library Version 3.14 (dated January 22, 2025). |
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Searchable Infrared Spectral Library Version 3.1 (dated May 15, 2024). A new library format is now available. |
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Supplementary documents which are intended to be a resource for those responsible for implementing SWGDRUG recommendations. |
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To keep up with the latest updates (including new monographs, libraries, etc.) from SWGDRUG, follow us on X, formerly known as Twitter. |
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