Drugs-of-abuse testing and therapeutic-drug monitoring.

MLO Med Lab Obs

Millennium Research Institute, Millennium Laboratories, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, USA.

Published: March 2011

Given the widespread prevalence of drug use and abuse, there is a great need for laboratories to provide identification of prescribed, non-prescribed, and illicit drug use. While the forensics model of drug-abuse testing continues to help provide society protection from criminal behavior, the therapeutic model of drug screening is preferred in the healthcare setting as these laboratories can provide important information to physicians to aid in their diagnosis and help them better protect their patients.

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