May 2022 BioDetect: Identifying Non-Urine Substances
Healthcare providers rely on medication compliance test results to assist in measuring compliance and establishing recent substance use. Providers must...
In Practice: Clinical Insights
Mar 2022 What Did My Patient Actually Take? Codeine Results Interpretation
Codeine is an all-natural opioid that is found in opium and is used pharmaceutically to treat mild to moderately severe...
Jan 2022 Unpredictability of Counterfeit Drugs
Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are developed to bypass controlled drug legislation and evade detection by traditional drug testing methods. In...
Aug 2021 Cases of Unusual Buprenorphine Concentrations in Urine Drug Tests: What Does This Mean and Clinical Implications?
Buprenorphine is a semisynthetic opioid with partial agonist activity at the mu-opioid receptor, an effective treatment option for opioid use...
Jun 2021 Finding Fentanyl
Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, buprenorphine, meperidine, methadone and others,1 comprise a class of drugs manufactured in laboratories designed to have...
Dec 2020 An Overview of Dextromethorphan/Levorphanol Results
Accurate interpretation of dextromethorphan/levorphanol results should take into account the patient’s prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drug regimen and the specimen...
