Are the results of immunochemical screening of urine for synthetic cannabinoids affected by other common drugs? – Pilot statistical study on samples from detention prisons
Abstrakt
(Abstract in: Toxicologie Analytique et Clinique. Volume 34, Issue 3, Supplement, September 2022, Page S86).
Aim: Determine whether the outcome of immunochemical screening for synthetic cannabinoids is affected by the presence of drugs frequently abused by prisoners. Current surveillance of drug and drug abuse in prisons does not routinely use synthetic cannabinoid (SC) screening, so their possible occurrence may go undetected.
Since the thresholds for the detection of SC must be low (ng/mL and less) due to their high efficiency, theoretically other substances present in the urine at orders of magnitude higher concentrations may influence the results of the SC screeqning.