Abstract

This review of drug testing outlines the methods capable of being used to analyse recreational, psychiatric, cognition-enhancing or mood-altering drugs. The review discusses the techniques currently used for the analysis of psychoactive drugs and attempts to forecast methods that are likely to find a place in drug analysis within the next few years and beyond. The review attempts to predict how advances in analytical science, such as miniaturisation, linked with advances in electronics and increased instrumental sensitivity might develop over the coming years.