Prescription Compliance or Illicit Designer Drug Abuse?
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Prescription compliance or illicit designer drug abuse?
A 62-year-old Caucasian woman underwent evaluation for possible liver transplantation. She had endstage cirrhosis secondary to hepatitis C and alcohol abuse. Among the tests ordered were urine screens for various drugs of abuse, including amphetamines, for which the patient’s urine sample was positive. Given the patient’s history of alcohol abuse and possible other drug abuse, her physicians qu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2011.174649