Drugs of Abuse Testing [Hot Topic]

Our speaker for this program is Dr. Loralie J. Langman, a consultant in the Division of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology and Associate Professor of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the College of Medicine. Dr. Langman is also the Director of the Toxicology and Drug Monitoring Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Langman will discuss the prevalence of illicit drug use in the United States and describe testing for commonly encountered drugs of abuse. She will also review drug detection limits, confirmation cutoffs, drug metabolism, and interpretation of screening and confirmation drug testing.