Toxicological analysis of psychoactive substances in hair: development method and
application in the investigation suicide attempts of attended at university hospital emergency …

According to data provided by the World Health Organization in 2020, about 270 million
people (or about 5.5% of the global population aged 15-64) had used psychoactive drugs in …

Drug abuse/misuse is now a major global problem affecting public health as well as
economic and social stability. This study presents a retrospective view of the prevalence of …

Considering that the use of psychoactive substances (PSs) is a risk factor to either higher
intensity or frequency of suicidal behavior, hair analysis was conducted to investigate the …

Numerous protocols for the analysis of amphetamine-type psychostimulants (ATS) in hair
have been employed over the years. Microextraction by packed sorbent (MEPS), a …

The use of chromatography hyphenated with mass spectrometry is a well-established
approach in clinical and forensic toxicology, particularly for the analysis of the so-called …

Introduction Amphetamine and derivatives are the second most commonly used group of
illicit drugs worldwide. However, in the last years new psychoactive substances with …

In the present study, we developed a reference material (RM) using authentic hair samples
for the determination of methamphetamine (MA) and its main metabolite, amphetamine (AP) …

The use of psychoactive substances has been associated with increased risk for traffic
accidents. Hair testing has become a routine practice in clinical and forensic toxicological …

INTRODUCTION: Hair testing has a leading role in toxicology practice and even more in
those aspects tightly linked to the assessment of psychoactive drug use and abuse in social …