Mandatory drug screening

Occupational physicians recognize the importance of trying to rehabilitate employees who have problems with drug and alcohol abuse. This must be done in a confidential manner. Some types of work, such as transportation or military activities, have mandatory drug screening and rehabilitation programs. 

Snodin, D.J., Regulatory immunotoxicology does the published evidence support mandatory nonclinical immune function screening in drug development , Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol., 40, 336, 2004. 

Polymorphism has received widespread general interest in pharmaceutical drug development because of its impact on the physicochemical properties of APIs and also because of their economic significance. It is considered mandatory to perform a thorough and exhaustive sohd-form screening of all possible polymorphs of a lead drug molecule at the preformulation stage. The purpose is to discover as many solid forms as possible and to identify the most suitable... 

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