International Journal of Drug Testing

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Cecil Greek wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 17:09:24 -0300
From: Cecil Greek <greek@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu>
Subject: New Journal for Drug Testing


The Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida-St. 
Petersburg and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida
State University jointly publish the on-line journal: The International
Journal of Drug Testing

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/journal

Editors are Tom Mieczkowski mieczkow@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu
and Cecil Greek cgreek@mailer.fsu.edu

The Journal is a multidisciplinary, refereed Journal devoted to the
publication of scientific research, technical applications, policy, and
other issues pertinent to the use of various biological specimens for
evaluating exposure to psychoactive drugs. 

The Journal has several areas of emphasis.  One is the promulgation of
research devoted to new and emerging approaches to drug testing, such as
hair, saliva, and sweat analysis.  The Journal will emphasize new
technologies.  While papers and work devoted to more mature technologies
(e.g., urine testing, or blood and plasma analysis) will be considered,
the Journal is particularly interested in highlighting innovative,
experimental, and unconventional analytic matrices.  The Journal will
also consider papers discussing findings based on applications and
experimentation using these technologies in various experimental,
quasi-experimental, and field settings.  "Applications" as used here are
broadly defined and include such activities as; drug testing for
epidemiological research, implementation of novel techniques in forensic
settings, the experimentation or use of these techniques in other legal,
medical-therapeutic, and related areas.  The Journal also welcomes
papers discussing policies, ethics, and other timely issues that are
germane to the technologies, their application, and the implications
which may arise from their use.  A primary motivation behind the
creation of the Journal is to provide a forum for the discussion of
issues which have been often compartmentalized by the traditional
boundaries of academic journals.  Drug testing is an area which involves
persons from many different academic and professional backgrounds.  The
Journal seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary forum for discussion which
will, we hope, prove useful to persons involved in various aspects drug
testing and who are interested in issues, problems, and developments in
the area.  Contributors to the Journal are encouraged to write material
which has broad utility and appeal, and contributions will be reviewed
with this perspective in mind. 

The Journal is entitled as an "International Journal." The community of
scholars and practitioners interested in drug testing is world-wide.  We
have worldwide distribution of the Journal, and the Journal's board of
editorial advisors is drawn from the international community.  Members
of the editorial board are all distinguished, active researchers or
practitioners who have direct experience in drug testing.