Helen,
If you're looking for heroin use specifically, you'll need to be looking
for 6-MAM. If you're going for a quick turn around you're ruling out the
standard GC-MS confirmation after running an opiate immunoassay. A solution
in your situation might be running the Microgenics 6-MAM CEDIA kit on your
main analyser. Haven't used it myself by I know it can be used on the
Olympus and Roche/Hitachi systems.
Hope this is of use
Ian
Dr Ian Godber
Clinical Chemistry
Nottingham City Hospital
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