Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing, Second Edition, addresses the general principles and technological advances for measuring drugs and alcohol, along with the pitfalls of drugs of abuse testing. Many designer drugs, for example, are not routinely tested in drugs of abuse panels and may go undetected in a drug test. This updated edition is a must-have for clinical pathologists, toxicologists, clinicians, and medical review officers and regulators, bridging the gap between technical and clinical information. Topics of note include the monitoring of pain management drugs, bath salts, spices (synthetic marijuana), designer drugs and date rape drugs, and more. Serves as a ready resource of information for alcohol and drug testingIdeal resource for making decisions related to the monitoring and interpretation of resultsIncludes concise content for clinical laboratory scientists, toxicologists and clinicians INDICE: 1. Alcohol: Pharmacokinetics, Health Benefits with Moderate Consumption and Toxicity2. Alcohol Analysis in Various Matrixes: Clinical versus Forensic Testing3. Alcohol Biomarkers: Clinical Issues and Analytical Methods4. Genetic Markers Related to Alcohol Use and Abuse5. Ethylene Glycol and Other Glycols: Testing and Interpretation Issues6. Introduction to Drugs of Abuse7. Legal Aspects of Drug Testing in U.S. Military and Civil Courts8. Pharmacogenomics of Drugs of Abuse9. Immunoassay Design for Screening of Drugs of Abuse10. Issues of Interferences with Immunoassays used for Screening of Drugs of Abuse in Urine11. Point of Care Devices for Drugs of Abuse Testing: Limitations and Pitfalls12. Drugs of Abuse Screening and Confirmation with Lower Cutoff values13. Overview of Analytical Methods in Drugs of Abuse Analysis: Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, Liquid Chromatography Combined with Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Related Methods14. High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: An Emerging Analytical method for drug testing15. Confirmation Methods for SAMHSA Drugs and Other Commonly Abused Drugs16. Critical Issues when Testing for Amphetamine Type Stimulants: Pitfalls of Immunoassay Screening and Mass Spectrometric Confirmation for Amphetamines, Methamphetamines, and Designer Amphetamines 17. Cocaine, Crack Cocaine and Ethanol: A Deadly Mix18. Drug assisted sexual assaults: Toxicology, Fatality and Analytical Challenge19. Overview of Common Designer Drugs20. Novel Psychoactive Substances: An Overview21. Review of Bath Salts on Illicit Drug Market22. Review of Synthetic Cannabinoids on Illicit Drug Market23. Application of Liquid chromatography combined with high resolution mass spectrometry for urine drug testing24. Forensic Toxicology in Death Investigation25. Drug Testing in Pain Management26. How do people try to beat drugs test? Effects of synthetic urine, substituted urine, diluted urine and in vitro urinary adulterants on drugs of abuse testing27. When Hospital Toxicology Report is Negative in a Suspected Overdosed Patient: Strategy of Comprehensive Drug Screen using Liquid Chromatography combined with Mass Spectrometry28. Testing of Drugs in Oral Fluid, Sweat, Hair and Nail: analytical, Interpretative and Specimen Adulteration Issues29. Advances in Meconium Analysis for Assessment of Neonatal Drug Exposure30. Analytical True Positive Drug Tests Due to Use of Prescription and Non-Prescription Medications31. Analytical True Positive: Poppy Seed Products and Opiate Analysis32. Miscellaneous Issues: Paper Money contaminated with Cocaine and Other Drugs, Cocaine Containing Herbal Teas, Passive Exposure of Marijuana, Ingestion of Hemp Oil and Occupational Exposure to Controlled Substances33. Abuse of Magic Mushroom, Peyote cactus, LSD, Khat, and Volatiles34. Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
- ISBN: 978-0-12-815607-0
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 560
- Fecha Publicación: 17/01/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés