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A new AI model, the Novel Psychoactive Substances Fragment-Aware Chemical Language Model (NPS-FACL), improves the detection of emerging synthetic drugs. This AI approach offers faster identification and better insights than traditional methods for forensic toxicology.

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  • Forensic Toxicology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Chemistry

Background:

  • The proliferation of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) presents a significant challenge for forensic toxicology.
  • Conventional detection methods, such as Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS), struggle to keep pace with the rapid emergence and diversity of NPS.
  • There is a need for advanced analytical tools that can rapidly identify and characterize emerging synthetic drugs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the Novel Psychoactive Substances Fragment-Aware Chemical Language Model (NPS-FACL), an AI framework designed to enhance the detection of NPS.
  • To leverage chemical substructures for improved identification and analysis of novel psychoactive substances.
  • To develop a more proactive and explainable approach to identifying emerging synthetic drug threats.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a fragment-aware tokenization strategy for chemical language models.
  • Implementation of explainable uncertainty quantification within the AI framework.
  • Evaluation of the NPS-FACL model's performance in detecting novel psychoactive substances.

Main Results:

  • Fragment-aware tokenization reduced token representation complexity by 20.33%.
  • The NPS-FACL model achieved a 2.01% increase in F1-score for NPS detection.
  • The model provides explainable insights into substructure-driven biases, enhancing prediction reliability.

Conclusions:

  • The NPS-FACL model represents a significant advancement in AI-assisted forensic toxicology for NPS detection.
  • This approach offers proactive alerts and uncertainty-driven insights, surpassing the limitations of traditional LC-MS methods.
  • The framework has broader implications for public health surveillance, drug regulation, and harm reduction strategies.