New technique enables drugs tests via exhaled breath

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

Researchers in Sweden have developed a new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air for the first time. By examining people who had received emergency care for an amphetamine overdose, the researchers found that in all cases there were traces of amphetamine and metamphetamine in the exhaled breath.

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