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Employer:

LGC, Queens Road, Teddington, TW11 0LY.

03/10/2017 AVIATION HEALTH CONFERENCE 1

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What’s new in the world of employment drug

testing?

Michalakis Michael, Scientific Advisor, LGC

Sciencefor a safer world

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Hello

I’m Mike

I have worked in the industry since 1999.

Currently I am LGC’s Scientific Advisor and my aim

is to find the best solution for our client

requirements.

Elected member of the European Workplace Drug

Testing Society (EWDTS) Executive Board.

Contact me at

• michalakis.michael@lgcgroup.com

• +44(0)74 0886 4191

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A quick history ‘lesson’

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What does testing look like in 2017?

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What’s new?

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9,590

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DRUGBANK.COM

New Psychoactive Substances

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'Legal highs linked to at least 39 prisoner

deaths in just two years’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

‘Legal highs blamed for two brothers'

deaths’

http://www.bbc.com

‘Young man from Worcester died after snorting legal high U-47700’

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk

‘Murderer killed sleeping victim with axe after smoking legal high’

http://metro.co.uk/

Drug use

Negative

Postive

Population 1 – old technology

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Population 1 – NEW technology

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Drug use

Negative

Postive

Population 2 – old technology

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Drug use

Negative

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Population 2 – NEW technology

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Drug use

Negative

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Summary

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References

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pozna%C5%84_Pyrkon_2015_Game_of_Thrones_Gra_o_T

ron_HBO.JPG

• Poznań Pyrkon

• https://pixabay.com/en/old-chair-forest-camp-forget-655844/

• tintenfieber

• https://pixabay.com/en/cannabis-pot-weed-marijuana-drug-2152604/

• futurefilmworks

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cannon_Street_tube_stn_roundel.JPG

• Sunil060902

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Nimitz_(CVN-68)_flight_deck_after_1981_EA-

6B_crash.jpeg

• U.S. Navy

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_smoking_marijauana.jpg

• Ashton

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Michalakis Michael, Scientific Advisor, LGC

michalakis.michael@lgcgroup.com

Sciencefor a safer world

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