Commentary

[摘要] Many pharmaceutical drugs and/or their metabolites often share structural similarity, if not chemical identity, to illicitly used drugs. This problem is well recognized for opiate testing, such as the conversion of hydrocodone to hydromorphone by the cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP2D6 (1), and it has certainly been described for amphetamine testing. Similar to the situation presented by Petri et al., the vast majority of positive results in amphetamine screening assays at our institution also fail to confirm for the …

[学科分类] 过敏症与临床免疫学