Point-of Care Urine Drug Test Kits Used by Rehabilitation Programs in Canada and US to Help Drug Users Detect the Presence of Fentanyl in Their Heroin and Opiate Drugs

Jul 7, 2017 | Instruments & Equipment, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Testing

A legal, supervised injection site (SIS) affiliated with Vancouver Coastal Health found 86% of drugs tested with strips contained fentanyl when tested with these medical lab test kits Here’s an unexpected application of point-of-care testing (POCT) that may surprise pathologists and medical laboratory leaders. In a sort of “guerilla-warfare” street experiment that applies diagnostic technologies to a problem, the manager of a needle-exchange program in the Bronx has been helping heroin and...
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