Ethyl alcohol is a legal and a widely available psychoactive drug. However, its excessive consumption causes addiction. This leads to aggressive behaviors, family battery, difficulties in interpersonal relations, legal offences, suicides, car accidents and deterioration in labor productivity, what causes financial problems. Despite many social actions against alcohol consumption, this problem is still unresolved. Therefore, fast and easy diagnosis of alcohol consumption is required to introduce proper and effective therapy and control sobriety during treatment. The determination of ethanol in human breath or in body fluids, due to fast metabolism rate of this substance, allows to monitor only recent drinking. Therefore, biomarkers of alcohol consumption are becoming more and more popular to confirm alcohol consumption in a wider range of time. This paper describes in details direct alcohol biomarkers, due to the possibilities of their determination by chromatographic techniques, what is an interesting area of study for an analytical chemist.
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- Category
- Publikacja w czasopiśmie
- Type
- artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2015
