Estudo de excipientes comumente encontrados na forma impura do cloridrato de cocaína

Abstract

The problematic concerning the drug’s use is extremely complex in Brazil and the world. The illicit drugs most popular which are sold in national territory are: marijuana, cocaine, crack, merle and cocaine paste. The chosen analysis methods should provide accurate and representative results, and the best way to obtain this result, is using the association of analytic methods. Rarely, cocaine has been object of traffic in its pure form. Besides there anesthetic drugs, as lindocaine, benzocaine and caffeine being used as changeable, some other substances have been already identified as excipients for increasing volume of the market final product, such as boric acid, starches, sugars, carbonates, bicarbonates, talcum powder and others. The appearing of clandestine laboratories increases even more, the challenge of analysts and experts that need to be capable of dealing with various substances and should provide quick and accurate results for identification of illicit contents. The incidence of false positive in the routine analysis of cocaine chlorinate has been generating to the State onus and slowdown the justice. This project had as object, the analysis of excipients found out in the impure form of cocaine chlorinate, through humid “Spot Tests” and analysis per spectrometry Raman; becoming innovator in the social aspect, merging the studies of false results originator excipients that will help the technical-Scientific Police, finding out if their applied identification tests of cocaine, in fact are viable, besides the contribution for the scientific environment.