Opioid Trends
1- to 5-Day Course
This versatile course can be provided as a one-day overview to convey awareness of the hazards associated with newly identified opioid drugs or as a comprehensive program ranging up to five days in duration incorporating mock lab practical exercises (fentanyl, carfentanil, ohmefentanyl, etc.) and in-depth instruction. As novel opioid and other synthetic processes emerge, it becomes increasingly difficult for personnel to adapt to a constantly evolving narcotic landscape. Training covers the production methods, history, legality, investigations, and safety-related issues that personnel who may encounter these dangerous synthetic drugs need to understand to protect themselves on the job.
NOTE: This program is currently only offered in client-specific on-site format (at our clients’ locations).
Objective: Provide a working knowledge of the hazards of fentanyl and its emerging analogs
Target Personnel: Clan lab responders, narcotics and clan lab investigators, civil support team members, firefighters, hazmat operators, SWAT personnel, or any other first responders who handle suspected fentanyl or fentanyl synthetics and related operations
Prerequisites: 32-Hour Clandestine Laboratory HAZWOPER Safety training (recommended)
Overview: This versatile course can be provided as a one-day overview to convey awareness of the hazards associated with newly identified opioid drugs or as a comprehensive program ranging up to five days in duration incorporating mock lab practical exercises (fentanyl, carfentanil, ohmefentanyl, etc.) and in-depth instruction. As novel opioid and other synthetic processes emerge, it becomes increasingly difficult for personnel to adapt to a constantly evolving narcotic landscape. Training covers the production methods, history, legality, investigations, and safety-related issues that personnel who may encounter these dangerous synthetic drugs need to understand to protect themselves on the job.
Course Topics:
- Current trends
- Clan lab red flags
- Fentanyl & fentanyl analogs – history, pharmacology, synthesis, milling (tableting) operations, analogs, use of naloxone, field testing & sampling, site control & decon
- Methcathinone
- Euphoria
- MDMA
- LSD
- DMT
- Piperazines
- Designer synthetics – substituted cathinones, synthetic cannabinoids, N-bomb
- Chemical field tests & instrumentation
- GHB
- Butane honey oil (BHO) & THC extractions
- PCP
- Mushrooms
- Krocodil
- Cocaine conversion
NOTE: This program is currently only offered in client-specific on-site format (at our clients' locations).