title: [Revealing hair].
abstract: Hair testing is an effective method for identifying chronic drug abusers. The procedure involves a decontamination step, acid hydrolysis in presence of deuterated internal standards, liquid-liquid extraction and analysis by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Hair analysis has a wide window of detection ranging from months to years and provides informations concerning the severity and pattern of an individual's drug use.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kintz
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cirimele
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lafargue
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mangin
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006197:Hair / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000379:methods*; D015262:Xenobiotics / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D015262:Xenobiotics
vernacular_title: Le cheveu révélateur.