Usefulness of sweat testing for the detection of cannabis smoke

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1961-1962

  De La Torre, Rafael ^a,b   Pichini, Simona ^c  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; ILLICIT DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CANNABIS ADDICTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG MONITORING; EDITORIAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SWEAT TEST;

HUMANS; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SWEAT;

CANNABIS;

EID: 7044231471     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.040758     Document Type: Editorial

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