Salivary Diagnostics in Oral Diseases
Saliva-based Drug Detection

Salivary levels of cannabinoids, opioids, cocaine, nicotine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, lysergic acid, diethylamide, phencyclidine, and amphetamines can be measured or monitored.⁴⁹ Available point-of-care diagnostics include Saliva MultiDrug Screen test kit^® (Medimpex Inc.), QuickScreen^® (Craig Medical Inc.), and iScreen^® (BioCheck). Point-of-care diagnostics to detect cotinine in smoking subjects, and methamphetamine and cocaine are not available.^50,51