Quantitative LC-MS/MS analysis kit for Psychoactive Drugs in urine.

Psychoactive drugs are chemical substances that affect the brain functions, behaviours and consciousness. These drugs can be used therapeutically to treat both physical and psychological disorders. Monitoring the concentrations of these drugs is very important issue for clinicians if they used for therapy. The analytic methods must be highly sensitive and selective for accurate and precise quantification of these drugs for therapeutic monitoring. Detection and quantification of these drugs can be performed using UV or fluorescence spectrophotometers, immunoassays and radio-receptor assays. Mass spectrometers coupled with chromatographic systems such as LC-MS, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS are more suitable for this purpose through their sensitivity and specifity.

Zivak Psychoactive Drugs LC-MS/MS Analysis Kit is developed for quantitative detection of 15 selected psychoactive drugs from different drug groups in urine samples with a minimum sample preparation in 7 minutes. Main methods and procedures that have been selected are based on EN ISO 13485 and 98/79/EC.