Analytical & Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair

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Edited by Pascal Kintz - SERIES: Forensic Science Series, Vol. 3 This comprehensive reference provides practical coverage of the best hair drug testing techniques, the analytical procedures involved, and the interpretation of data. Applications include detection of doping, drug-facilitated crime investigation, workplace testing, and the granting of drivers’ licenses. The authors describe specific drugs, such as opiates, cocaine, and cannabis, and discuss different testing methods for each of them. The book also covers postmortem toxicology, pitfalls created by passive exposure, and testing for metals, including the use of inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-MS), hair multielementary analysis, and the new speciation analysis.

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