For many people in Europe, especially emotionally disturbed teens, drugs are their best friends! But, as everyone knows, whether an addict or not, drugs are not good. Though they help people escape their troubles for a while, they lead to long-lasting ill-effects, such as risk of AIDS and hepatitis C. Due to the increasing concerns among relatives and friends about drug abuse by their loved ones, they are rapidly using methods to test the presence of such substances in the body of suspected users.
Apart from out of genuine concern, DOA testing is also done to establish doping, for legal purposes, maintain decorum at the workplace, and for medical diagnosis. The process can be accomplished with the help of several consumables, such as assay kits and reagents and rapid test kits, as well as a range of equipment, including breath analyzers, chromatography instruments, and immunoassay analyzers. Of the various consumables available, rapid test kits were the most widely adopted in the past, owing to their heavy usage in point-of-care testing centers, for mandatory screening, legal, and diagnostic purposes.
Such tests are done at laboratories, hospitals, homes, and workplaces, among which hospitals account for the largest volume. This is because as drugs lead to serious health issues and overdose is potentially fatal, users often end up in hospitals. At such places, advanced equipment and trained professionals are deployed, who undertake the testing. Moreover, in Europe, efforts are on to better the healthcare infrastructure, which include procuring modern medical devices and equipment, including those which are used for the determining the presence of DOA in the body.
The testing volume is rising in other settings too; for instance, laboratories generally offer more cost-effective services than hospitals, which is why an increasing number of people are preferring such centers for DOA testing. Moreover, the rules in workplaces regarding drug usage are becoming stricter, and many companies are implementing testing programs for their employees, to track any risky behavior. Similarly, concerned parents are using these tests at home, especially on troubled teenagers, among whom the usage of drugs is rising fast.
As per the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Abuse (EMCDDA) in 2019, 17.5 million people in the 15–34 age group were cannabis users. Similarly, 2.6 million used cocaine, 2.1 million were MDMA users, and 1.2 millions used amphetamines. People in this age group, the younger ones especially, go through all kinds of mental stress, caused due to parent and peer pressure, relationships and break-ups, bad grades, childhood trauma, and sexual abuse, which often drives them to drug addiction.
The largest DOA testing market in Europe has been the U.K., and the situation will be the same in the coming years, owing to the growing problem of drug abuse in the kingdom. According to the National Health Service (NHS), in 2018–19, 7,376 people were admitted to the hospital with drug-induced mental and behavioral disorders, which was a 30% increase from the 5,668 admissions reported in 2008–09. Moreover, rising by 16% from 2012–13, the number of hospital admissions due to drug poisoning in the kingdom stood at 18,053 in 2018–19.
Therefore, with the growing issue of DOA usage in Europe, the volume of tests is swiftly rising.
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Database management and analysis are the key activities requiring professionals with adequate interpretation skills.
Staff recruitment for such activities turns out to be a costly affair.
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The medical sector is growing rapidly.
As healthcare and medicine are two very important parts of human life.
These two things are always in demand all around the world as every person requires medical help at some point in their life.
According to the studies, the medical sector has developed drastically and is making huge amounts of money if compared to the last couple of years.
But still, in many countries, there is lack of medical centers that treat patients and even provide an area for staying.
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