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r7-arr t1_j6exqzy wrote

Reply to comment by TheRedLob in Can you (roughly) determine the dosage of a drug taken based off of the blood concentration? by bynarie

Aren't you constrained by having tests for all the chemicals in the drug?

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TheRedLob t1_j6frjrr wrote

Yes! In general, you cannot bring a drug to market without being able to measure it in blood reliably. But those tests are often not available in eg a rural hospital. This field is therefore a real interplay between doctors, statistici an/software engineers, and bio-assay manufacturers.

Now for illegal designer drugs, that is a completely different ball game. They may even be built to evade detection.

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