Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 5)

Introduction: The advancement of technologies was marvelous during the past half century; new analytical instruments have been being invented and improved. About 30 years ago, thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was being used most widely for detection and identification of drugs and poisons. Around that time, the use of GC/MS started in the field of medicine. Therefore, an ideal procedure for analysis of drugs and poisons was considered to be the screening by TLC, followed by the final identification and quantitation by GC/MS. However, recently, various enzyme immunoassays for drugs without need of pretreatments have appeared, and some disposable drug screening kits...