Hair differs from other materials used for toxicological analysis because of its unique ability
to serve as a long-term storage of foreign substances with respect to the temporal …

Sulfatases, which cleave sulfate esters in biological systems, play a key role in regulating
the sulfation states that determine the function of many physiological molecules. Sulfatase …

The market for new psychoactive substances has increased markedly in recent years and
there is now a steady stream of compounds appearing every year. Benzodiazepines consist …

The development of low cost MS detectors in recent years has promoted an important
increase in the applicability of GC–MS systems to analyze for the presence of foreign …

This review focuses on basic aspects and recent studies of hair analysis for abused and
therapeutic drugs and is discussed with 164 references. Firstly, biology of hair and sampling …

Publications focusing on the analysis of postmortem specimens for the presence of drugs
were reviewed with particular reference to systematic toxicological analysis. Specimens …

The number of reports on drug facilitated crimes is increasing these last years. Apart from
ethanol and cannabis, benzodiazepines (BZD) and analogs are the most common drugs …

Up to now, more than 50 pharmaceuticals or drugs of abuse have been reported to be
detectable in hair after oral or parenteral administration. The present paper reviews the …

This review focuses on possible pitfalls in hair testing procedures. Knowledge of such pitfalls
is useful when developing and validating methods, since it can be used to avoid wrong …

An anti-diazepam, molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) has been synthesized and used to
extract diazepam and other benzodiazepines from hair samples via a molecularly imprinted …