Workplace drug testing, different matrices different objectives

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 83-88

  Tsanaclis, Lolita M ^a   Wicks, John F C ^a   Chasin, Alice A M ^b  

^a Cansford Laboratories Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drug testing; Hair; Saliva; Urine

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS;

'CURRENT; DRUG TESTING; HAIR; ILLICIT DRUG; MATRIX; ORAL FLUIDS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SALIVA; URINE; URINE TEST;

SCREENING;

11 HYDROXYDRONABINOL; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ACETYLCODEINE; AMPHETAMINE; AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; ANHYDROECGONINE METHYL ESTER; BENZOYLECGONINE; CANNABIDIOL; CANNABINOL; CANNABIS; COCAINE; COCAINE DERIVATIVE; CODEINE; DIAMORPHINE; DIAZEPAM; DIHYDROCODEINE; DRONABINOL; HOMOCOCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG; LORAZEPAM; METHAMPHETAMINE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE 6 ACETATE; NORDAZEPAM; OXAZEPAM; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HAIR LEVEL; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SALIVA LEVEL; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG URINE LEVEL; DRUG USE; EMPLOYEE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HAIR; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIPOPHILICITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PHARMACOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; URINALYSIS; URINE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84857464540     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.399     Document Type: Article

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