Subscriptions to Microgram
(January 2009 Update)

General Information

Microgram Bulletin is a monthly newsletter published by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Forensic Sciences, and is primarily intended to assist and serve forensic scientists concerned with the detection and analyses of suspected controlled substances for forensic/law enforcement purposes.

Microgram Journal is a scientific periodical, also published by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Office of Forensic Sciences, that presents peer reviewed, full length Scientific Research Articles and Technical Notes on the detection and analyses of suspected controlled substances for forensic/law enforcement purposes.

Access to Microgram Bulletin and Microgram Journal
Microgram Bulletin and Microgram Journal are unclassified (as of the January 2003 issue), and are published on the DEA public access website (http://www.dea.gov/programs/forensicsci/microgram/index.html). At this time, both Microgram Bulletin and Microgram Journal are available only electronically, and require Internet access to view. Professional scientific and law enforcement personnel may request email notifications when new issues are posted (such notifications are not available to private citizens). The publications themselves are never sent electronically (that is, as attachments).

Requests to be added to the email notification list should preferably be submitted via email to the Microgram Editor at: dea-microgram-2009@mailsnare.net Requests can also be mailed to: Microgram Editor, Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Forensic Sciences, 8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, VA 22152. All requests to be added to the Microgram email notification list should include the following Standard Contact Information:

* The Full Name and Mailing Address of Submitting Laboratory or Office;

* The Full Name, Title (Laboratory Director, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Librarian, etc.), Phone Number, FAX Number, and Preferred email Address of the Submitting Individual (Note that email notifications are mailed to titles, not names, in order to avoid problems arising from future personnel changes);

* If available, the generic email address for the Submitting Laboratory or Office;

* If a generic email address is not available, one private email address for an individual who is likely to be a long-term employee, who has a stable email address, and who will be responsible for forwarding Microgram information to all of the other employees in the requestor’s Office (Note that only one email address per Office will be honored).

Requests to be removed from the Microgram email notification list, or to change an existing email address, should also be sent to the Microgram Editor. Such requests should include all of the pertinent Standard Contact Information detailed above, and also should provide both the previous and the new email addresses.

Email notification requests/changes are usually implemented within six weeks.

Email Notifications (Additional Comments)
As noted above, the email notification indicates which issue has been posted, provides the Microgram URL, and additional information as appropriate. Note that Microgram e-notices will NEVER include any attachments, or any hyperlink other than the Microgram URL. This is important, because the Microgram email address is routinely hijacked and used to send spam, very commonly including malicious attachments. For this reason, all subscribers are urged to have current anti-viral, anti-spyware, and firewall programs in operation. However, in order to ensure that the email notifications are not filtered as spam, the dea-microgram-2009@mailsnare.net email address must be “whitelisted” by the Office’s ISP.

Costs
Access to Microgram Bulletin is free.