Drug Testing in Alternate Biological Specimens

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jenkins, Amanda J. (Editor), Caplan, Yale H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Forensic Science And Medicine
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Forensic medicine.; Biochemistry.; Medicine & Public Health.; Forensic Medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biochemistry, general.

Although the specimen of choice in the US drug testing industry is urine, and serum in clinical medicine, interest has recently grown in the use of other matrices as drug testing media. Drug Testing in Alternate Biological Specimens provides researchers and forensic toxicologists with a convenient g...

Table of Contents:

• Specimens of Maternal Origin: Amniotic Fluid and Breast Milk
• Drugs-of-Abuse in Meconium Specimens
• Drugs-of-Abuse in Nails
• Drug Testing in Hair
• Drugs-of-Abuse Testing in Saliva or Oral Fluid
• The Detection of Drugs in Sweat
• Drugs-of-Abuse Testing in Vitreous Humor
• Drugs in Bone and Bone Marrow
• Drugs-of-Abuse in Liver
• Drugs-of-Abuse Testing in Brain.