As a Forensic Chemist with the DEA, you will face the great challenge presented by the scientifically sophisticated illicit drug manufacturers. Unusual compounds are constantly created and sold. These drugs must be quickly identified to permit enforcement of federal regulations and prevent the availability of such drugs for abuse.

As part of your regular work, you will be involved in:

• Working with a wide range of state-of-the-art instruments that analyze many different types of evidence;
  
  
• Providing expert testimony in federal and state courts to support the DEA enforcement mission;
  
  
• Conducting research in the development of new methods of analysis;
  
  
• Developing intelligence data used to determine trends in international trafficking of illicit drugs; and
  
  
• Supporting DEA Special Agents, Task Force Officers and Diversion Investigators in their investigations.

You will be an integral part of the laboratories' programs of maintaining liaison with international, federal, state and local academic research and industrial organizations in order to exchange information on drugs.

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