Drugs of Abuse Testing
Ordering the Right Test at the Right Time,
and What Does it Mean?
Drug Detection Limits: Amphetamines

September 2009
So for amphetamines, we have a screening cutoff of 1000 ng/mL and a confirmation cutoff of 500 ng/mL. Now the thing that’s very interesting, is if you notice the double asterisk note with methamphetamine, methamphetamine has a concentration cutoff of 500 ng/mL, but amphetamine must also be present for that to be reported.
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