Ks. Kelly et R. Rogers, DETECTION OF MISREPORTED DRUG-USE IN FORENSIC POPULATIONS - AN OVERVIEW OF HAIR ANALYSIS, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 24(1), 1996, pp. 85-94
Criminal and civil forensic evaluations are frequently complicated by
misreported (denied or exaggerated) substance abuse. This article prov
ides an introduction to the use of radioimmunoassay of hair (RIAH). RI
AH with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry confirmation is superior
to the more commonly employed urinalysis in its (1) wider window of de
tection, (2) ability to provide a chronology of substance abuse, and (
3) resistance to countermeasures. The potential implications of the RI
AH procedure to retrospective and prospective forensic evaluations are
discussed.