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[Revealing hair]
P Kintz1, V Cirimele, P Lafargue
1Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg.
Annales Pharmaceutiques Francaises
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Hair testing is an effective method for identifying chronic drug abusers. The procedure involves a decontamination step, acid hydrolysis in presence of deuterated internal standards, liquid-liquid extraction and analysis by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Hair analysis has a wide window of detection ranging from months to years and provides informations concerning the severity and pattern of an individual's drug use.