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On-Site Drug Testing (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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On-Site Drug Testing (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Series: Forensic Science and Medicine
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It is at least a decade since scientists turned their imaginations
to creating new compact, portable test instruments and
self-contained test kits that could be used to analyze urine and
saliva for alcohol, drugs, and their metabolites. Although the
potential applications for such tests at the site of specimen
collection, now called "on-site" or "point-of-care" testing, range
far beyond hospital emergency rooms and law enforcement needs, it
was catalyzed by the requirements of workplace drug testing and
other drugs-of-abuse testing programs. These programs are now a
minor national industry in the United States and in some western
European countries, and cover populations as diverse as the
military, incarcerated criminals, people suspected of driving under
the influence of alcohol and other drugs, all athletes from college
to professional ranks, and of course the general employed
population, which is monitored for illegal drug use and numbers in
the millions. It is not surprising, then, that the need for rapid
and precise tests, conducted economically by trained professionals,
has become a major goal. Current government approved and peer
reviewed laboratory methods for urine analysis serve present needs
very well and have become remarkably robust over the past twenty
years, but the logistics of testing some moving populations, such
as the military, the Coast Guard, workers on off-shore oil
platforms, and athletes-perhaps the most mobile of these groups-are
unacceptably cumbersome.
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