In this ToxTime presentation, join Donna Coy, Laboratory Director at USDTL, for a discussion about environmental exposure hair testing, including an overview of USDTL’s ChildGuard® testing, how it can be utilized, and discussion of the fentanyl crisis as it relates to environmental exposure in children.
Dr. Donna Coy is the Laboratory Director for USDTL with over 10 years of experience in the forensic toxicology field. Dr. Coy is a certified Toxicological Chemist through the National Registry of Certified Chemists and currently serves as the President of the Midwest Association for Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (MATT). Dr. Coy has co-authored several peer-reviewed scientific articles and qualified as an expert witness in over 200 family and civil court proceedings.
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0:00 Introduction
0:38 Dr. Donna Coy's Introduction
0:51 Today's Topics
1:06 Substance Use and Disorder
1:47 General Substance Use and Nicotine Vaping Statistics
2:30 Past Year Illicit Drug Use Statistics
2:55 Prescription Pain Reliever Misuse Statistics
3:18 Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Statistics
3:50 Drug Overdose Death Rates: US
4:33 Prevalence of Parental Alcohol or Drug Abuse as a Condition of Removal US
5:12 Children Living with Parents Who Have SUD Statistics
7:00 USDTL's First CPS ChildGuard Case
8:40 How are Drugs Incorporated into Hair?
11:06 Detection Window
12:20 Can Fingernails be Used?
13:03 Environmental Exposure in Children
14:17 Exposure or Ingestion?
14:48 Drug Versus Metabolite
17:58 Child Fentanyl Exposure in the News
19:20 Lethal Doses
19:52 What is Fentanyl?
21:01 Fentanyl Deaths in Children
22:01 What Does a Fentanyl Positive Look Like?
23:20 What are we Seeing at USDTL?
25:14 Case Studies
30:30 USDTL Mission
31:43 Conclusion & Outro
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