The Importance of Economic Context in Interpreting Forensic Data on Drug Trafficking Networks

The study titled “Chemical profiling: A tool to decipher the structure and organization of illicit drug markets: An 8-year study in Western Switzerland” by Broséus et al. [1] presents results that purportedly “contradict those of −–” (p.27). Specifically, the Broséus paper concludes that the distributi on network for cocaine is markedly more diffuse than the corresponding network for heroin, which is the opposite of the results in −- [2]. We believe that, while the underlying chemical profiling analysis in the paper may be methodologically robust, this conclusion stems from a contextually flawed interpretation of the data.
Source: Forensic Science International - Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research