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UKAS
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) is the sole national accreditation body recognised by the Government to assess such standards. UKAS periodically audit each of the laboratories whom they accredit in order to ensure that the laboratories continue to demonstrate the competence and performance capability required to meet international agreed quality levels. Through the Mutual Recognition Agreement with ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) UKAS's quality mark is recognised throughout the world. It ensures clients have robust, reliable, quality test results that are more likely to stand up in court proceedings. Essentially, accreditation gives our clients security and peace of mind.

UKAS's own website emphasises that “A laboratory certified to ISO 9001:2008 but without ISO/IEC 17025:2005 should not be considered a suitable alternative.” To reach the international standard for drug testing, a laboratory needs to be independently audited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standards.
www.ukas.org

ACPO
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is an independent, professionally-led strategic body. In the public interest and, in equal and active partnership with Government and the Association of Police Authorities, ACPO leads and coordinates the direction and development of the police service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In times of national need ACPO, on behalf of all chief officers, coordinates the strategic policing response.
www.acpo.police.uk

The UK Home Office DIP Programme
The Drug Interventions Programme is a critical part of the UK Government's strategy for tackling drugs.
www.drugs.gov.uk/drug-interventions-programme/

Society of Forensic Toxicologists
The Society of Forensic Toxicologists, Inc. (SOFT) is an organisation composed of practicing forensic toxicologists and those interested in the discipline for the purpose of promoting and developing forensic toxicology.
www.soft-tox.org

The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
TIAFT, is an established (37 years) international association of over 1400 members from all regions of the world who are actively engaged in analytical toxicology or allied areas. The aims of this association are to promote cooperation and coordination of efforts among members and to encourage research in forensic toxicology. The members come from the police force, medical examiners and coroners' laboratories, horseracing and sports doping laboratories, hospitals, departments of legal medicine, pharmacology, pharmacy and toxicology.
www.tiaft.org

AACC
AACC (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) is an international scientific/medical society of clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists and other individuals involved with clinical chemistry and other clinical laboratory science-related disciplines.
www.aacc.org

National Library of Medicine
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

United Nations Drug Control Programme
The United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP) is a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime. Established in 1997, ODCCP consists of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention (CICP). ODCCP has approximately 350 staff members worldwide. Its headquarters are in Vienna and it has 22 Field Offices as well as Liaison Offices in New York and Brussels. ODCCP relies on voluntary contributions, mainly from governments, for 90 per cent of its budget.
www.undcp.org

DrugScope
DrugScope is the UK's leading drugs charity and centre of expertise on drugs. We provide balanced and up-to-date drug information to professionals and the public, conduct research and develop policies on drugs and drug-related issues, promote humane and effective ways of responding to drugs and drug use, encourage informed debate and provide a voice for over 800 member bodies working on the ground.
www.drugscope.org.uk

National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. This charge has two critical components: The first is the strategic support and conduct of research across a broad range of disciplines. The second is to ensure the rapid and effective dissemination and use of the results of that research to significantly improve drug abuse and addiction prevention, treatment and policy.
www.nida.nih.gov

US Drug Enforcement Agency
The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the United States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those organisations and principal members of organisations, involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United States; and to recommend and support non-enforcement programs aimed at reducing the availability of illicit controlled substances on the domestic and international markets.
www.usdoj.gov/dea

Journal of Analytical Toxicology
The Journal of Analytical Toxicology (JAT) the international source for practical clinical/forensic applications for isolating, identifying and quantitating potentially toxic substances.
www.jatox.com

London Toxicology Group
This group membership has a professional interest in the detection and measurement of Drugs, Alcohol, Poisons and their products in man and other biological systems, and with the interpretation of these measurements. This discipline is known as Analytical Toxicology. There are a number or further useful links contained within the London Toxicology website.
www.londontox.org.uk

Forensic Science Society
www.forensic-science-society.org.uk

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