- Cayman Chemical & Forensic Science Resources
- Data Search System for New Psychoactive Substances
- Designer Drugs Online Mass Spectral Database
- DrugBank
- European Monitoring Centre For Drugs and Drug Addiction
- European Project Response to Challenges in Forensic Drug Analysis
- Mass Bank – High Resolution Mass Spectral Database
- MZ Cloud – Advanced Mass Spectral Database
- PubChem
- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)
- SWGDrug
- UNODC Early Warning Advisory (EWA) on New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
- The Web Toxlab JS
- World Health Organization – Critical Review Reports
Helpful Links
The identification and characterization of NPS can often be complex and time consuming, but there are numerous resources available for laboratories looking to discover an unknown substance in casework. The below resources allow laboratory analysts to search for data corresponding to NPS identified and reported by other agencies or laboratories. Some resources are searchable by NPS name or formula, while others allow for direct spectra comparisons. Although these sources are extensive, newly emerging NPS may not be available.