Buyer’s Guide: Clinical Chemistry Analyzers for Opioid Screening

 Buyer’s Guide: Clinical Chemistry Analyzers for Opioid Screening

The opioid epidemic in the United States is an ongoing public health crisis that has been complicated and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic; national statistics show daily overdose deaths rose by nearly 30% in 2020. As with the pandemic, laboratories play a vital role in fighting the opioid crisis, in areas ranging from emergency departments and hospitals, to random screening services to forensic casework. 

Clinical chemistry analyzers can provide fast presumptive results in each of these areas, increasing throughput through automation and the ability to run a panel of multiple tests in one run.

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