Introduction
The healthcare industry looks toward new solutions to provide better outcomes at lower costs. With more treatment decisions now based on clinical lab results, labs play an important supporting role. Lab tests include screening, detection, and confirmation of various analytes for drugs-ofabuse testing and drug monitoring research. In drugs-of-abuse testing, labs continue to see a rise in novel psychoactive substances (NPS).
Though the testing technologies employed have evolved, the most popular are immunoassay and mass spectrometry (MS)-based tests. The effectiveness of these technologies varies depending on the analysis needed, desired throughput, sample preparation method used, and type of matrix analyzed. Clinical-research-lab use of MS has traditionally provided the greatest value in drugs-of-abuse confirmatory testing in forensic toxicology and in drug monitoring research.
In both fields of work, leading researchers are now advancing new technologies such as high-resolution MS to solve their clinical research challenges.
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