Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair

This comprehensive reference provides practical coverage of the best hair drug testing techniques. The authors review the validation of analytical procedures and the interpretation of data and discuss doping, drug-facilitated crime investigating, workplace testing, and the granting of drivers' licenses. Specific drugs are profiled, such as opiates, cocaine, and cannabis, and the book discusses the different testing methods for each of them. This reference also covers postmortem toxicology, pitfalls created by passive exposure, and testing for metals, including inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-MS), hair multielementary analysis, and the new speciation analysis.