Comparison of costs for testing a wide variety of drugs of abuse per urine specimen in a drug abuse urine screening program and frequent urine collections.
Existing urine testing techniques in a drug abuse urine screening program with their capacity to analyze urine specimens per day are discussed. The start-up cost using each technique and cost per specimen are presented. A single step extraction technique using ion-exchange paper to absorb drugs prior to thin-layer chromatography (TLC) as reported by these laboratories will cost $0.58 per specimen, for testing the entire aray of drugs of abuse (at least 9-14 tests per specimen). Sensitivity reported using TLC technique for the morphine base is 0.15 mug/ml (minimum volume of urine needed 20 ml), 0.10 mug/ml if the volume of urine available is 30-35 ml, and 0.07 mug/ml if the volume of urine available is 43-50 ml.
D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests; D006801:Humans; D007475:Ion Exchange Resins; D007841:Latex Fixation Tests; D008403:Mass Screening; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D013048:Specimen Handling; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000652:urine*
D007475:Ion Exchange Resins