Read the March 2020 issue of CFTN
The ingestion of toxic alcohols and glycols, including ethylene glycol, isopropanol, and methanol, remains a significant public health problem. The authors review the specific toxic alcohols and glycols and discuss analytical methods and challenges.
The opioid overdose epidemic is one of the most remarkable public health challenges of the 2010s in the US. Recently, the concept of drug checking using fentanyl test strips has been proposed as a strategy for reduction of opioid overdose death rates.
The Department of Health and Human Services published the final Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs using Oral Fluid (OFMG) in the Federal Register on October 25, 2019, with an effective date of January 1, 2020. The OFMG provides the scientific and technical guidelines to permit federal executive branch agencies to add oral fluid testing to their workplace drug testing programs.
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