time, the DOT endorsed this opportu- nity to improve transportation safety by addressing illicit use and abuse of the prescription drugs. In the Quest Diag- nostics Drug Testing Index™ (DTI) data, General Workforce positivity for this drug increased by 51 percent between 2006 and 2012. Moreover, in 2012 DTI data, post-accident tests revealed a 2.8 times higher positivity rate as compared to pre-employment tests and nearly twice the positivity rate as compared to random tests. This compound goes by several names including OC, Hillbilly Heroin and
Kicker. It has been marketed under the names Percocet® Percodan® OxyFast®
(with aspirin), OxyIR® and OxyContin®
. What is the name of our mystery drug? Oxycodone. ❚
Richard Simpson is the Direc- tor of Science at the Quest Diagnostics Forensic Toxicol- ogy laboratory, located in Norristown, PA. He received his undergraduate degree
in Chemistry from Mansfield State College, an MS in Chemistry from Bucknell University,
(with acetaminophen), ,
and his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island. He subsequently completed a post-doctoral research fellow- ship in the laboratory of Catherine Fenselau at the University of Maryland (Baltimore County) and the Middle Atlantic Mass Spectrom- etry Facility at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has been involved in the development and application of liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry methods in quantitative bioanalytical chemistry for 25 years. His work has resulted in over 30 peer-reviewed publications, and in over 40 presentations at numerous local, national, and international scientific symposia.
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