An overview of forensic drug testing methods and their suitability for harm reduction point-of-care services

Given the current opioid crisis around the world, harm reduction agencies are seeking to help people who use drugs to do so more safely. Many harm reduction agencies are exploring techniques to test illicit drugs to identify and, where possible, quantify their constituents allowing their users to ma...

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Published in:	Harm reduction journal Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 52 - 13
Main Authors:	Harper, Lane, Powell, Jeff, Pijl, Em M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 31.07.2017 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Analysis Analytical chemistry Canada Care and treatment Color Costs Drug abuse Drug addiction Drug effects Drug overdose Drug testing Drug users Drugs Empowerment Encyclopedias Forensic engineering Forensic science Forensic sciences Fourier transforms Harm Reduction Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Health Psychology Humans Identification Immunoassays Infrared spectroscopy Ionic mobility Laboratories Legal medicine Mass spectrometry Mass spectroscopy Medicine Medicine & Public Health Methods Music festivals Opioids Pharmaceutical Preparations - blood Pharmaceutical Preparations - urine Pharmaceuticals Point of care testing Point-of-Care Systems - legislation & jurisprudence Raman spectroscopy Reduction Reproducibility of Results Review Scientific imaging Social Policy Social Work Street drugs Substance abuse Substance Abuse Detection - legislation & jurisprudence Urine Well being Working groups Canada Drug users Drug-related side effects and adverse reactions Drug effects Drug evaluation Harm reduction Substance abuse Drug overdose Street drugs
ISSN:	1477-7517, 1477-7517
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