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Researchers have long known that standard urine drug screening can sometimes trigger false positives, or erroneous results that indicate the presence of a drug when there isn’t one.

Standard Drug Screening Fails to Identify Some Children Who Have Been Exposed to Substances in Unsafe Home Environments

Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine

The study highlights an adjustment that clinical labs can make to improve the accuracy of results

Close up photo of a smartphone with a white powdery substance and fingerprints on its surface.

Smartphone Surface Swabs Reveal Drug Use Patterns

Miriam Bergeret, MSc

A proof-of-concept study shows smartphone swabs could provide convenient, noninvasive toxicology testing

A urine sample in a container is kept on a lab bench for analysis with a pH strip, syringe, vacutainer, and requisition form around it.

New MS-Based Technique Detects Drugs in Urine Samples

Swathi Kodaikal, MSc

The rapid urine test can detect 40 drugs reliably in just three minutes and can also be applied in clinical toxicology tests

A transparent bottle with white powder, labeled Fentanyl, lays open with two more such bottles in the background.

Novel Biosensor Detects Fentanyl in Urine in Seconds

University of Texas at Dallas

First-of-its-kind electrochemical test can detect trace amounts with 98 percent accuracy

A cartoon researcher (male) in a white lab coat with black hair holding a bow after shooting a cartoon syringe into a bullseye.

The Essential Role of Water Purity in Drug Target Discovery

Marnie Willman

Water purity can drastically impact quality control during drug discovery, validation, and characterization

Fentanyl addictive prescription drug bottle with warning labels beside a few pills from an open, fallen vial.

More Research, Less Barriers Needed to Implement Drug-Checking Tools

National Institutes of Health

Tools such as fentanyl test strips hold promise to reduce drug-related harms and save lives amid the overdose epidemic

Close-up of a personnel's hands with gloves loading a tray of sample vials into a liquid chromatography machine.

New, Robust, LC-MS-MS-Based Tool Detects Antidepressants in Blood

Brown University

The technique needs only 20 μl of sample and can be configured to run on most liquid handling systems