An assessment of oral fluid drug screening devices

Oral Fluid Drug Screening (Policy Brief)

In July 2008, revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada were implemented that provided police with the tools and powers to enhance the enforcement of laws against drug-impaired driving. Police were given the authority to demand a suspected drug-impaired driver submit to a Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) and a drug influence evaluation by a Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE), and to provide...

Drug testing in oral fluid-evaluation of sample collection devices.

Nine different oral fluid (OF) collection devices were studied to evaluate their suitability for collecting samples for drug analysis. The devices were Greiner Bio-One, Orasure Intercept, Immunalysis Quantisal, StatSure Saliva.Sampler, Cozart, Sarstedt Salivette, Malvern Medical OraCol, Acro Biotech Salicule, and Varian OraTube. For comparison, OF was also collected into plastic tubes. The volu...

An evaluation of selected oral fluid point-of-collection drug-testing devices.

Point-of-collection oral fluids drug-testing devices are being marketed for a variety of medico-legal purposes where they may complement existing technologies and be used to detect drugs following recent ingestion. To assess the utility of these devices for use in drugged-driving investigations, we performed a laboratory evaluation of four devices and those results were published previously. In...

An evaluation of rapid point-of-collection oral fluid drug-testing devices.

New technology is currently being marketed to rapidly test oral fluids for drugs of abuse at the point of collection (POC). There are no nationally accepted standards or cutoff concentrations for detecting drugs in oral fluids and for most analytes there are significant differences in cutoff concentrations across devices. Four devices were evaluated (OralLab), RapiScan, Drugwipe, and SalivaScre...

PBTs for Drugs: Oral Fluid Collection Devices