Disclosures
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
• +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
Postive
Population 2 – NEW technology
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Drug use
Negative
Postive
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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
Sciencefor a safer world
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