Dear Paul,
Many thanks for your comments. I agree with you completely about the use of
these dipsticks. We also have had experience of clinicians questioning OUR
results on the basis of NPT drug results. Perhaps I should clarify the
situation. We already provide the drugs of abuse screening service for the
addiction unit and are involved with EQA etc. However, in addition the
addiction unit wish to use NPT for some of their patients. So we are quite
pleased that the addiction unit have asked for our input so that we may have
some control over training and quality control. So I am really after some
general information on what is available so that we can investigate further.
Many thanks,
Gina
"tox.rbh" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Gina
We do drug testing for the drug clinics in Berkshire as well as other places
likely to make this sort of request. Sometimes we get asked to re-test
samples that have already been put through NPT stick testing and results are
not believe, we have always found they were incorrect.
We do not recommend any NPT schemes to enquirers, but have given information
about where to get them. A lot of the samples we get from clinics are
positive for a large spectrum of drugs and to get a reliable result we use
toxilab and GC. We obviously belong to the national external QA scheme,
which NPT schemes in general don't. Also, some of the questions we get from
drug clinics I'm not sure could be answered using stick tests.
Paul Robinson
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Reading
----- Original Message -----
From: "GINA FREDERICK" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:43 AM
Subject: drugs of abuse NPT
> Dear colleagues,
> Does anyone out there have any experience of NPT for drugs of abuse
testing?
> Which are the best products etc etc?
> We have been asked to advise our local drug rehab clinic, but have no
> experience of any of the products on the market at present.
> All comments welcome!
> Many thanks in anticipation,
> Gina Frederick.
>
> Dr GM Frederick,
> Dept Biochemistry,
> Derby City General Hospital,
> Derby.
>
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