Edited by
Amitava Dasgupta

2008

Therapeutics and Drugs of Abuse

Starting from the 1970s, therapeutic drug monitoring has evolved from monitoring concentrations of a few antiepileptic drugs to a major discipline in today’s laboratory practice. For a drug with a narrow therapeutic range, therapeutic drug monitoring becomes an essential part of patient management, especially because of the development of immunoassays for measuring concentrations of drugs in a biological matrix.