Screening for drugs of abuse: Hair as an alternative matrix: A review for the medical toxicologist

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-34

  Curtis, John ^a   Greenberg, Michael ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMPHETAMINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CANNABINOID; COCAINE; COSMETIC; MELANIN; METHAMPHETAMINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTAMINATION; CRIME; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EXTRACTION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HAIR; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEGAL ASPECT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; STORAGE;

HAIR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37649017232     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650701261462     Document Type: Review

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