Research Catalog

Title

A health educator's guide to understanding drugs of abuse testing / Amitava Dasgupta.

Author

Dasgupta, Amitava, 1958-

Publication

Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2010.

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Description

xviii, 230 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Drug testing
• Substance Abuse Detection > methods
• Substance-Related Disorders > urine
• Drug Monitoring > methods
• Employment > legislation & jurisprudence
• False Positive Reactions
• Substance Abuse Detection

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Drugs of abuse : past and present -- Pharmacology and genetic aspects of abused drugs -- Designer drugs : a new challenge -- Evolution of pre-employment and workplace drug testing -- Testing of SAMHSA and non-SAMHSA drugs -- Legal issues -- Methodologies for drugs-of-abuse testing -- Point-of-care devices for drug testing : advantages and limitations -- "Beating" drug tests with flushing, detoxifying agents, and synthetic and substituted urine -- Household chemicals as urinary adulterants -- Urine luck, klear, urine aid, stealth, and related urinary adulterants -- Alternative explanations for true positives in drug testing -- Miscellaneous drugs-of-abuse testing issues -- Over-the-counter drugs that interfere with drug testing -- Prescription medications that interfere with drug testing -- Passing pre-employment and workplace drug tests -- Drug testing of hair, oral fluid, sweat, and meconium -- Herbal remedies and drugs-of-abuse testing.

ISBN

• 9780763765897 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0763765899 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008054199

OCLC

288983329

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library