Hair analysis can be a useful tool in many forensic and clinical applications to establish drug use, trends of use and in the assessment of chronic alcohol consumption. For example, it can be utilised as part of a medico-legal investigation into drug-related deaths (as a complement to testing other post-mortem biological samples), drug-facilitated crimes, as part of programme compliance for those participating in drug or alcohol dependency treatment or as part of workplace or health insurance screening.
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