Beating poppy seed defense: New test can distinguish heroin use from seed ingestion
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 14:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Heroin is one of the most widely used illegal drugs in the world, but drug testing has long been challenged by the difficulty in separating results of illicit heroin users from those who have innocently eaten poppy seeds containing a natural opiate. Research explores a new test which may present a solution to this so-called ‘poppy seed defense.’