title: [The use of saliva for exposure assessments on designer drugs among adolescents].
abstract: Drug use is one of the fundamental problems of the contemporary world. Due to the debilitating effects on physical and mental health and the possibility of impaired social functions, it is extremely important to assess exposure to psychoactive substances among high-risk groups. Taking into account characteristics of adolescence, one of them includes young people. To assess the exposure of young people to drugs, survey research is the most commonly use. To establish reliability of the information indicated by the students, toxicological studies could be a good manner. High-performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is currently one of the most common techniques use for the detection and determination of psychoactive substances in biological material. In practice, an important issue in toxicological studies is the selection of a suitable biological material. Taking into account economic considerations and the method of sampling, the saliva is an increasingly used alternative material. The aim of this study was to assess the exposure of junior high school students on psychoactive substances--designer drugs, through the analysis of surveys and qualitative analysis of saliva taken from teenagers. It has been shown that surveys are a relatively quick and easy form of assessing the exposure of young people to psychoactive substances, but require verification through toxicological analysis of biological material for the presence of psychoactive substances for their reliability. Poznan secondary school students experimented with designer drugs at a similar level as respondents of nationwide survey from 2013.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Napierała
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tezyk
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piznal
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bogusiewicz
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Florek
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D015198:Designer Drugs / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D015198:Designer Drugs