Medtox Journal on Drug Abuse Recognition

Public Safety Substance Abuse Journal by MEDTOX, March 2010

Public Safety Substance Abuse Journal by MEDTOX, May 2010

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Role of Feeling of Loneliness and Emotion Regulation Difficulty on Drug Abuse

Introduction: The Risk behaviors such as drug abuse are prevalent anxiously in youth. Thus investigation and recognition of risk behaviors are important. The aim of the present study is to investigate on relationship between loneliness and the difficulty in emotional regulation with drug abuse. Materials and Methods: this research was descriptive- correlation. The sample was comprised of 452...

False-negative result for cocaine metabolites on a lateral-flow drug test slide corrected by dilution.

To the Editor: Cocaine is one of the most widespread drugs of abuse; therefore, clinical laboratories are frequently requested to screen for the presence of cocaine and its metabolites in urine. When screening a urine specimen from a potential study participant for drugs of abuse, using a Verdict II lateral flow test slide (MEDTOX Diagnostics), multiple technologists obtained a negative screeni...

Public Safety Substance Abuse Journal by MEDTOX June 2009

A false positive drug test by name is a bit scary; there is nothing more unsettling than to be falsely accused of having done something bad that you didn't do. Nevertheless, a great deal of hysteria has been generated by uninformed so-called drug test "experts" who travel the Internet dispensing half-baked advice on how to prepare for a drug test of some sort. Because the Internet is a bazaar o...