Wanting Highly Accurate/Sophisticated Data from Hair Follicle Testing

[skywise]

Hi fellow bluelighters. It's been a while!

I'm wanting to get a hair follicle test that will go back as far as possible and that will test for as many drugs as possible. Without going into too much detail, I suspect that I was drugged without my knowledge and I want to know exactly what I was drugged with and to have some idea of when I ingested certain drugs.

I have long hair, so that shouldn't be an issue. I've called some labs and looked into kits but so far they all only go back 90 days. I know enough about chemistry to understand that there is no arbitrary "90 day" cut off on chemical detection methods -- just lowered levels of confidence about the result the further you go back.

So, I am wanting a drug test that will do the following:

1) Go back as far as scientifically possible with a high level of accuracy
2) Give me results as far back as my hair is long with the confidence level of detection specified
3) Test for as many drugs as possible

Does anyone have any ideas about where or how I could get this done? If some of this isn't feasible, then any pointers on the next best thing would also be great. Thank You.

 

[flaming]

Why not just get the hair tested by a lab or by a kit (by yourself)? If 90 days is an artificial time constraint, as you reason it to be, then you could just send in a full-length strand of your hair for lab testing and it would return any results it finds, not just results from within this supposed 90 day time limit.

 

[Sturnam]

Some places have cut-off limits, i.e. the minimum amount to quantify. So you could still test positive-per say, but be below the limit of quantification. For most places that's a negative, but you could still see it as a positive?

Secondly, I don't think hair tests have a wide selection of drugs to test for. Especially not usually ones associated with drugging people. That would be the main problem, as I see it.

 

[sekio]

Find a university lab, i'm sure you'd make some grad student's day.

Chop your hair into 1cm segments, do an extraction on each cm, and then graph drugs vs time

 

[skywise]

^^ What department in a big University do you think is best to contact? Pharmacy? Medical? Chemistry?

 

[nuke]

^^ What department in a big University do you think is best to contact? Pharmacy? Medical? Chemistry?

Chemists (particularly environment, analytic or forensic), biochemists

You'll probably have to find a lot of other people who would want to volunteer too, a chemist/biochemist that is tenured may pick it up as an easy paper for a grad or undergrad to crank out if their work is already along the same lines. It's a lot of work for a [likely] already overburdened undergrad/grad to do.