title: Military drug positive rates in the European Theater drug rates in Europe.
abstract: Urine samples were collected from Air Force and Army service members within the European Theater and analyzed for drugs of abuse employing radioimmunoassay and gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS). Data collected from January 1985 through December 1991 indicate that the total positive rate decreased from 4.67% to 0.69%. Of the drugs tested, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) was the drug abused most in the European Theater during this time period.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Little
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lukey
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Shimomura
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Fuhrmann
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States