| Abstract: | Abstract Interest in hair analysis as an alternativ or complementary approach to urinalysis for drug abuse detection has grown in recent years. Hair analysis can be particularly advantageous for drugs and their enantiomers. More than hundred pharmaceuticals, drugs of abuse agents are reported to be detectable in human and animal hair. This article reviews the aalysis of drugs and drug metabolites by chromatographic procedures, incuding the pretreatment steps, and the xtraction methods. Tihe eneral tendency in the last years, to highly sophisticated techiques gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS–NCI), high pressure liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS), gas chromatography–mass spectrometry–mass spectrometry (GC–MS–MS) well illustrates this constant fight for sensitivity. |
