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                Forensic Toxicology  **Scope of Testing Expanded** 

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                The Forensic Toxicology Section provides analytical services in medicolegal death investigations (postmortem analysis), driving while intoxicated (DWI) by alcohol and/or drugs, and investigations to support medical examiners, law enforcement agencies, the justice system, and other customers.

                 

                Laboratory staff apply a wide variety of state-of-the-art instrumental techniques in the course of their casework to include:


                Headspace Gas Chromatography – Flame Ionization Detection (Headspace GC/FID) – Detects ethanol and  other volatile substances

                Liquid Chromatography – Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (LC/TOF-MS) – Screens for routine and novel drugs of abuse

                Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) – Screens, confirms and quantifies drugs and their metabolites

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                Our Services

                • External link opens in new tab or windowBlood Alcohol & Volatiles Analysis
                • External link opens in new tab or windowUrine Alcohol & Volatiles Analysis
                • External link opens in new tab or windowBlood Drug Analysis (Qualitative)
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                Our Team


                STEVEN FLEMING, M.S.

                F-ABFT, TC-NRCC

                Toxicology Lab Supervisor

                sfleming@nlcl.org

                EMILY RALEY, M.S.

                Forensic Scientist III

                eraley@nlcl.org

                Deneshia Williams, B.S.

                Forensic Scientist I

                dwilliams@nlcl.org

                 


                Publications & Presentations


                PUBLICATIONSFull article available on request

                External link opens in new tab or windowA Psychonaut’s Experience of Intoxication with Multiple Classes of Drugs Including Novel Psychoactive Substance 2-fluorodeschloroketamine: Case Report and Urinary Analysis


                PRESENTATIONS

                Coming Soon!




                Analytical Instrumentation


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                Headspace GC/FID


                Detects ethanol and other volatile substances.



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                LC/TOF-MS


                Screens for routine and novel drugs of abuse.



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                LC/MS/MS


                Screens, confirms, and quantifies drugs and their metabolites.



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                External link opens in new tab or windowSociety of Forensic Toxicologists (SOFT)

                External link opens in new tab or windowAAFS Standards Board (ASB)

                External link opens in new tab or windowAmerican Academy of Forensic Scientists (AAFS)

                External link opens in new tab or windowNational Safety Council - Alcohol, Drugs & Impairment Division (NSC-ADID) 


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                 Contact Us:


                318-227-2889 (Shreveport)

                318-442-0676 (Alexandria)

                318-388-0338 (West Monroe)






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