Main description:

Drug misuse and dependence is an ever evolving field of study, which has exploded over recent years owing to the advent of the internet. Due to the ever-growing number of young people using drugs recreationally and the privatisation of drug screening and detection services, there is the need to disseminate evidence-based information concerning the technology and methods available for studying this expanding field.

Detection of Drug Misuse describes the current state-of-the-art techniques used for identifying and confirming drug misuse as well as recent advances in biomarkers, instrumentation and analysis methodology. The title discusses both recreational and designer drugs, including non-addictive and addictive drugs.

This book is a useful and fascinating resource for healthcare professionals working in the field of drug misuse as well as academics and postgraduates researching within analytical, chromatography, medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry; drug metabolism; addiction science; and forensic toxicology, science and medicine.

Contents:

Urinalysis: The Detection of Common Drugs in Urine; Point-of-care/Collection Testing: Application to Drugs of Misuse Testing; Analytical Advances in Drug Detection: Human Sports Drug Testing; Analytical Overview of Drug Detection: Civil Aviation; Detection of Misused Drugs: Natural and Synthetic Cathinones; Detection of Misused Drugs: Psychoactive Piperazines; Dried Blood Spots for Testing Drugs of Misuse; Drug Testing in Exhaled Breath; DNA/RNA Aptamers for Illicit Drug Molecules; Latent Fingerprints for Drug Screening; Microneedle Patches for Caffeine Detection and Quantification; Detection of a Single Drug Exposure in Hair; Ethanol Analysis in Blood, Breath and Urine: Interpreting the Results; 'Ecstasy' Tablets: Batch Matching for Forensic Drug Intelligence Puropses in Malta; The Usefulness of Metabolites in the Interpretation of Drug Test Results; The Usefulness of Metabolic Ratios in the Interpretation of Steroid Misuse; Neurohypophyseal Hormones and Drugs of Misuse