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Alcohol Testing: What you need to know
TL;DR - Alcohol testing provides scientifically proven methods to monitor alcohol consumption over time for pre-employment screening, workplace programmes, probation, custody cases, and driving offences. Testing can determine excessive abuse (40+ grams of pure ethanol daily), occasional... Read More
Peth Testing: An Expert Guide
Peth Testing is the most accurate blood test to determine Alcohol Abuse for family courts, fitness to practice, clinical studies and treatment centers. Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) Testing provides a detection of alcohol abuse with 99% sensitivity (far higher than traditional blood... Read More
Hair Drug Testing FAQs
Hair drug testing is a reliable, accurate and robust method for covering large historical chronological insight into drug or alcohol consumption. At DNA Legal, our hair strand testing offerings are a popular and well-established option for legal practitioners and professionals specialising in the... Read More
Are drugs consistent with declared usage?
Hair strand testing is uniquely positioned to provide valuable insight and precise identification for patterns of substance use across a wide-range of legal and medical purposes. methods of analysis, such as analysing individual segments of hair allow for historic pattern analysis but can have... Read More
DNA Testing in Wills, Inheritance, and Estate Disputes
Losing a loved one is a difficult and testing time for most, without the added emotional distress of your biological relationship coming into question. When it comes to claims being made on the estate of the deceased, on some occasions a DNA test will be required. Due to the Wills, Trusts, and... Read More
How to change a name on a birth certificate
Within 42 days of birth, parents in the UK are obliged to register their new child. Typically, this is done at the hospital where the child was born, however, in cases such as home births, or where the child’s name has not yet been decided, the parents can visit a local register office at a later... Read More
What is a toxicology report and how to get one?
TL;DR - A toxicology report is an expert statement that detects and identifies drugs, chemicals, toxins, or poisons in samples such as hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids. These reports include detailed lab results, expert interpretation of findings, and conclusions about substance use... Read More
A Guide to Ketamine Drug Testing
TL;DR - Ketamine is a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, with possession carrying up to 5 years imprisonment and unlimited fines, whilst supply can result in up to 14 years imprisonment. Ketamine is increasingly being cut with cocaine, with over 80% of cocaine tests showing... Read More
Drug Metabolites (Part 5) Cannabis Case Study
Cannabis Case Study The donor advised that he has never consumed cannabis, but is in an environment where cannabis is frequently smoked. Participant - Adult male Type of testing - Hair strand testing (HST) Detection period - 3 months approximately (overview) Results: Table 1:... Read More
Drug Metabolites (Part 4): Child Cocaine Case Study
Cocaine Case Study The child is suspected of being in an environment where cocaine is frequently being consumed. Background: Participant - Child (Age 4) Type of testing - Hair strand testing (HST) Detection period - 4 months (segmented) Discussion: Cocaine... Read More
Drug Metabolites (Part 3): Cocaine Case Study
Cocaine Case Study The mother is trying to prove the cessation of cocaine in order to reinstate custody of her child. Background: Participants - Mother Type of testing - Hair strand testing (HST) Detection period - 3 months (segmented) No chemical... Read More
Drug testing: Drug Metabolites (Part 2)
In part 1 we touched on how metabolites assist in interpreting results, so this week we are going to look at this in more detail, and how a few common drugs and their metabolites can tell us about patterns of usage. We will follow this up in part 3 with a case study to illustrate how we at DNA... Read More