Health officials are warning that the practice of chroming – inhaling solvents or other household chemicals – can have irreversible impacts on vital organs, including the brain. The warning comes ...

Harry Sumnall receives and has received funding from public grant awarding bodies for alcohol and other drugs research. He is an unpaid member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mind Foundation, ...

Jim Anderton today congratulated Wellington City Council on the up-and-coming launch of Wellington’s New Zealand Retailers Code of Practice – Sensible Selling: Reducing Volatile Substance Misuse, this ...

The death of an Australian teen has exposed a dangerous new drug craze that is growing in popularity and threatening the lives of young people. Esra Haynes has become the tragic face of “chroming”, a ...

RECENTLY, we experienced difficulties with the automatic analysis by gas chromatography of a process stream consisting of a liquid mixture of organic chemicals. These arose because traces of ...

Volatile organic solvents are ubiquitous commodities in the modern world and used primarily for industrial purposes. Many of these chemicals are naturally abundant, found in geological formations and ...

A recent article explained the role of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) in the analytics laboratory. The current article focuses on reviewing the technology used for preparing volatile ...