Evaluation of direct and indirect ethanol biomarkers using a likelihood ratio approach to identify chronic alcohol abusers for forensic purposes

Alcohol is the most widely abused legal drug in many western countries. Health care expenditures, business and criminal justice costs associated to alcohol-related problems amount to hundreds of billions of dollars yearly, and even a greater economic burden is sustained when alcohol addictive behaviours remain untreated. Over the last decade, numerous scientific studies focused on improving the diagnosis of chronic excessive alcohol consumption to efficiently identify individuals in need of recovery programs, health care, therapeutic monitoring, etc.
Source: Forensic Science International - Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Source Type: research