Drug Testing Technology

Covering a wide range of research currently being done in drug analysis, Drug Testing Technology: Assessment of Field Applications compares and evaluates various methods used to determine abused drugs taken by individuals, and their application in various programs and contexts. Controversies associated with various methods, including urine analysis and hair analysis, are examined. Contributors from a wide diversity of disciplines offer advanced knowledge, encompassing work which is technical as well as markedly philosophical. Chapters provide overviews of drug incorporation into hair; the use of hair analysis for compliance measurement in the use of anti-epileptic medications; and the application of drug testing to the psychiatric treatment of substance abuse disorders. Drug Testing Technology: Assessment of Field Applications provides information useful in medical applications, workplace testing, criminal justice monitoring community epidemiology, and drug treatment assessment. TOC:The Assessment of Therapeutic Compliance Based Upon the Analysis of Drug Concentrations in Hair.- Novel Biological and Mechanical Analysis Techniques for Alcohol and Other Drugs of Abuse: Their Role in Addiction Management and Psychiatric Treatment.- The Effects of Physiochemical Factors on Incorporation of Drugs Into Hair and Behavior of Drugs in Hair Root.- The Utilization of Ion Mobility Spectrometry in a Criminal Justice Field Application.- A Comparison of Self-Report, Urine Sample, and Hair Sample Testing for Drug Use: A Longitudinal Study.- Validation of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) With Female Juvenile Detainees.- Drug Monitoring in the Field: Applying Hair Assays and Urinalysis for Cocaine to Probationers.- Drug Testing Applications in an Offender Diversion Program.- Testing for Drugs of Abuse in the Pediatric Population.- Hair samples for Documenting the Impact of Gestational Cocaine Exposure on Children and Mothers.- Improving the Validity of Behavioral Drug Abuse Research through Drug Testing.- The Feasibility of Hair Testing in a Household Survey on Drug Abuse.- Drug Assessment Methods in the Workplace.- Workplace Drug Testing by Hair Analysis: Advantages and Issues.- An Analysis of the Racial Bias Controversy in the Use of Hair Analysis.- The Missing Strand: A Feminist Analysis of Hair Testing Women in Research Protocols.