Screening
No specific guidelines regarding screening for illicit drug use, including amphetamines, are available. The United States Preventive Services Task Force has found insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for drug use by history or diagnostic testing.[63] However, rapid qualitative drug screening may be very useful in the acute care of patients with sympathomimetic toxidromes who cannot, or refuse to, provide history regarding their drug use.
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