Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing

1. Alcohol: Pharmacokinetics, Health Benefits with Moderate Consumption and Toxicity<br>2. Alcohol Analysis in Various Matrixes: Clinical versus Forensic Testing<br>3. Alcohol Biomarkers: Clinical Issues and Analytical Methods<br>4. Genetic Markers Related to Alcohol Use and Abuse<br>5. Ethylene Glycol and Other Glycols: Testing and Interpretation Issues<br>6. Introduction to Drugs of Abuse<br>7. Legal Aspects of Drug Testing in U.S. Military and Civil Courts<br>8. Pharmacogenomics of Drugs of Abuse<br>9. Immunoassay Design for Screening of Drugs of Abuse<br>10. Issues of Interferences with Immunoassays used for Screening of Drugs of Abuse in Urine<br>11. Point of Care Devices for Drugs of Abuse Testing: Limitations and Pitfalls<br>12. Drugs of Abuse Screening and Confirmation with Lower Cutoff values<br>13. Overview of Analytical Methods in Drugs of Abuse Analysis: Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, Liquid Chromatography Combined with Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Related Methods<br>14. High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: An Emerging Analytical method for drug testing<br>15. Confirmation Methods for SAMHSA Drugs and Other Commonly Abused Drugs<br>16. Critical Issues when Testing for Amphetamine Type Stimulants: Pitfalls of Immunoassay Screening and Mass Spectrometric Confirmation for Amphetamines, Methamphetamines, and Designer Amphetamines <br>17. Cocaine, Crack Cocaine and Ethanol: A Deadly Mix<br>18. Drug assisted sexual assaults: Toxicology, Fatality and Analytical Challenge<br>19. Overview of Common Designer Drugs<br>20. Novel Psychoactive Substances: An Overview<br>21. Review of Bath Salts on Illicit Drug Market<br>22. Review of Synthetic Cannabinoids on Illicit Drug Market<br>23. Application of Liquid chromatography combined with high resolution mass spectrometry for urine drug testing<br>24. Forensic Toxicology in Death Investigation<br>25. Drug Testing in Pain Management<br>26. How do people try to beat drugs test? Effects of synthetic urine, substituted urine, diluted urine and in vitro urinary adulterants on drugs of abuse testing<br>27. When Hospital Toxicology Report is Negative in a Suspected Overdosed Patient: Strategy of Comprehensive Drug Screen using Liquid Chromatography combined with Mass Spectrometry<br>28. Testing of Drugs in Oral Fluid, Sweat, Hair and Nail: analytical, Interpretative and Specimen Adulteration Issues<br>29. Advances in Meconium Analysis for Assessment of Neonatal Drug Exposure<br>30. Analytical True Positive Drug Tests Due to Use of Prescription and Non-Prescription Medications<br>31. Analytical True Positive: Poppy Seed Products and Opiate Analysis<br>32. Miscellaneous Issues: Paper Money contaminated with Cocaine and Other Drugs, Cocaine Containing Herbal Teas, Passive Exposure of Marijuana, Ingestion of Hemp Oil and Occupational Exposure to Controlled Substances<br>33. Abuse of Magic Mushroom, Peyote cactus, LSD, Khat, and Volatiles<br>34. Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports