Police warn about dangerous drugs on Boise streets

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Police warn about dangerous drugs on Boise streets
October 20, 2014

BOISE -- The Boise Police Department is warning the public about a dangerous trend in local drug use.

Investigators say people have been trying to buy various street drugs and instead receiving bath salts.

Police have responded to several incidents involving the drugs in the past few weeks.

To combat the problem the department has purchased a new machine called TruNarc that can detect bath salts.

"People think they're buying one thing, they are in fact not getting what they think they're buying, they're getting these synthetic drugs and the result is very erratic, dangerous, violent behavior," said Sgt. Cole Farmer of the Boise Police Narcotics Unit.

http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/crime/2014/10/20/bath-salts-boise-drugs/17639805/
 
I thought be some sort ion scanner like customs uses when they tell you your passport is covered in drug residue. Ansyway I want to buy one and bring it to raves and festivals.
 
Um , ion scanner? Sure it's not some kind of reagent or other conventional test? Didn't know we had the technology for boarder patrol agents to scan the ions off my passport...
 
Yeah passport my watch bunch of stuff all test positive for cocaine residue they stuck my stuff in some machine at las Vegas airport.
 
They don't detect ions, they ionize the sample and record the speed of their movement at a certain temperature I believe.
It's a form of spectroscopy
 
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http://www.ahurascientific.com/narcotics-identification/products/trunarc/index.php?ca=trunarc

Analgesics and narcotics are sort of the same thing, right? There are non-narcotic analgesics, but I don't think this company is concerned with ibuprofen detection.
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I guess you could consider gabapentin and pregabalin non-narcotic analgesics with abuse potential, going by the threads in the Other Drugs section, though I never enjoyed them, and I doubt that's what they're referring to.
 
Yeah and the word "narcotic" is largely treated as an open qualifier, meaning whatever you want it to (often with negative connotations). Cannabis was/is considered a narcotic, for instance, but I can't think of ever hearing about alcohol ever referred to as a narcotic (despite it's seemingly more fitting action and pharmacology).
 
toothpastedog said:
Spectroscopy/light makes sense. Sorry, feel free to continue the discussion. Sorry to hear about the cocaine.
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According to their webpage "Raman spectroscopy"
http://www.ahurascientific.com/narcotics-identification/index.php

At over 20 grand per machine I won't be buying one any time soon.

Mass spectrometer is the same as ion scanning. It has happened to me twice now. The first time was shocking it was a land crossing in North Dakota of all places, they said my wallet had LSD traces, no LSD has ever been in my wallet. I maybe touched my lip and then touched my bank card or something, but like months before that. All the people I was with I was the only one who tested positive for LSD. That machine works. The 2nd time was the vegas airport and I had coke traces on everything.

They use the IONSCAN 400B at customs, I looked it up. Customs here in Canada are begging for the money to buy one.

Specifications
Technology Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS)
Explosives Detected RDX, PETN, TNT, Semtex, Tetryl, NG, Nitrates, HMX and others
Narcotics Detected Cocaine, Heroin, PCP, THC, Methamphetamine, Ecstasy, LSD and others
Analysis Time 6-8 seconds
Ready Time Less than 20 minutes
Weight 47 lbs. (22 kg)
Dimensions 15.5 x 13.5 x 13” (40 x 34 x 32 cm)
 
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