Drug Testing in Hair - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849381126 ISBN 13: 9780849381126

Publisher: CRC Press, 1996

Synopsis

Drug Testing in Hair is the first book on this timely and controversial topic. The book's purpose is to validate hair testing as an accepted form of evidence for use in courts and elsewhere, such as the military and the workplace. This volume presents the most recent experiments and clinical applications to provide missing information and insight into the unanswered questions of hair testing. Active researchers working in hair testing have contributed chapters to this book. New data, never before published, are incorporated into the text, so the reader receives cutting-edge information from experts in the field. This is must-have information on everything you need to know about drug testing in hair.

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About the Author

Pascal Kintz

From the Back Cover

In the 1960s and 1970s, hair analysis was used to evaluate exposure to toxic heavy metals, such as arsenic, lead, or mercury. Simultaneously in the U.S. and West Germany, it was possible to denominate various organic drugs my means of radioimmunoassay (RIA) at the beginning of the 1980s. Generally, the courts of justice only recognize the results of chemical-toxicological analyses when they are confirmed by a second independent method. For this reason, gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry is now the method of choice for hair analysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0849381126
• ISBN 13: 9780849381126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Kintz Pascal