Hair Drug Test
Hair test is an analysis of chemicals, i.e. harmful substance, drug residues, metabolites, etc, in hair samples, which provides information of the type, identity and concentration of target molecules. Hair-drug test is a unique drug testing technology patented by Wah Kin. It detects the most commonly abused drugs in Hong Kong with higher accuracy and sensitivity.
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Principles:
Drugs or drug metabolite circulates are deposited in the hair follicle and entrapped in the core of the hair shaft. Since scalp hair grows on an average of 1.3 cm per month, therefore different segments of a hair strand corresponds to different detection windows revealing the drug intake history:
Hair length |
Corresponding drug history |
Hair root - 4 cm |
Past 3 months |
4 - 8 cm |
Past 4 – 6 months |
8 - 12 cm |
Past 7 – 9 months |
12 - 16 cm |
Past 9 – 12 months |
Drug targets covered by hair-drug test:
1. Cannabis
2. Cocaine
3. Norcocaine
4. Benzoylecgonine
5. Cocaethylene
6. Heroin
7. Morphine
8. Methadone
9. Codeine
10. Amphetamine
11. Methamphetamine
12. Ecstasy including MDMA, MDEA and MDA
13. PCP
14. Ketamine