Laboratory Investigations for Patient Care


The centre has well equipped laboratories for detecting health consequences of substance use as well as detecting presence of various drugs of abuse in the body fluids. Screening of Urine to detect presence of drugs of abuse is routinely performed as a part of the patient-care in the centre. Following are some of the statistics on laboratory tests conducted in the centre in the recent past (2006).

 

a) Total  Number of Drugs of Abuse Screened in urine Samples : 20969

 

Drugs

Nos.

Morphine :

2590

Codeine:                                 

2590

Buprenorphine:

2590

Detropropoxyphene:

2590

Pentazocine:

57

Naltrexone:                                            

42

Naloxone:                                           

84

Pheniramine (Avil):

2590

Nitrazepam:                           

2590

Diazepam:                             

2590

Chlordiazepoxide:                 

2590

Canabinoids:                             

    66

 

  

b) Biochemical investigations: 12000
c) Hematological investigations: 6000
d) HIV screening: 600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Contact us National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre Sector-19, Kamla Nehru Nagar C.G.O.Complex, Ghaziabad (U.P.) Tel: 0120-2788974 – 78, Fax: 0120-2788979 nddtc.aiims@gmail.com