Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Amitava Dasgupta.
• Editors: Dasgupta, Amitava
• Contents: 1. Alcohol: Pharmacokinetics, Health Benefits with Moderate Consumption and Toxicity; 2. Alcohol Analysis in Various Matrixes: Clinical versus Forensic Testing; 3. Alcohol Biomarkers: Clinical Issues and Analytical Methods; 4. Genetic Markers Related to Alcohol Use and Abuse; 5. Ethylene Glycol and Other Glycols: Testing and Interpretation Issues; 6. Introduction to Drugs of Abuse; 7. Legal Aspects of Drug Testing in U.S. Military and Civil Courts; 8. Pharmacogenomics of Drugs of Abuse; 9. Immunoassay Design for Screening of Drugs of Abuse; 10. Issues of Interferences with Immunoassays used for Screening of Drugs of Abuse in Urine; 11. Point of Care Devices for Drugs of Abuse Testing: Limitations and Pitfalls; 12. Drugs of Abuse Screening and Confirmation with Lower Cutoff values; 13. Overview of Analytical Methods in Drugs of Abuse Analysis: Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, Liquid Chromatography Combined with Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Related Methods; 14. High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: An Emerging Analytical method for drug testing; 15. Confirmation Methods for SAMHSA Drugs and Other Commonly Abused Drugs; 16. 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 Mix; 18. Drug assisted sexual assaults: Toxicology, Fatality and Analytical Challenge; 19. Overview of Common Designer Drugs; 20. Novel Psychoactive Substances: An Overview; 21. Review of Bath Salts on Illicit Drug Market; 22. Review of Synthetic Cannabinoids on Illicit Drug Market; 23. Application of Liquid chromatography combined with high resolution mass spectrometry for urine drug testing; 24. Forensic Toxicology in Death Investigation; 25. Drug Testing in Pain Management; 26. 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 testing; 27. When Hospital Toxicology Report is Negative in a Suspected Overdosed Patient: Strategy of Comprehensive Drug Screen using Liquid Chromatography combined with Mass Spectrometry; 28. Testing of Drugs in Oral Fluid, Sweat, Hair and Nail: analytical, Interpretative and Specimen Adulteration Issues; 29. Advances in Meconium Analysis for Assessment of Neonatal Drug Exposure; 30. Analytical True Positive Drug Tests Due to Use of Prescription and Non-Prescription Medications; 31. Analytical True Positive: Poppy Seed Products and Opiate Analysis; 32. 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 Substances; 33. Abuse of Magic Mushroom, Peyote cactus, LSD, Khat, and Volatiles; 34. Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher Details: Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (560 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128156087; 0128156082
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