Decontamination procedures for drugs of abuse in hair: are they sufficient?
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2016, Forensic Science InternationalCitation Excerpt :A ratio below 0.1 most likely indicates drug use, ratios between 0.1 and 0.5 indicate possible drug use and when a ratio above 0.5 is found, most of the detected drugs originate from external contamination [3,25]. Over the past 25 years, several papers have been published related to the removal of external contamination from hair samples [4,5,8,9,11–13,26–38]. Most of these studies focus on contamination caused by exposure to cocaine, cocaine solution or cocaine smoke [4,5,8,9,11,26–36].
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