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“Fingerprint” metabolites that uniquely identify substances in a urine drug screen

By Rajnish Mago, MD (bio) Have you ever had a situation where a patient’s urine drug screen comes back positive for cocaine or heroin and the patient swears it must be an error? We all have been in this situation all too often. In such situations, the lab will usually automatically do a confirmatory test…

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