Services
Testing Parents, Carers & Children
Atkinson Lewis: alcohol and drug testing - hair, saliva, blood and urine analysis. Call 01792 578623. A reliable drug and alcohol testing service can be a challenge - especially when your casebook takes you to every corner of the UK. Atkinson Lewis can take on all your alcohol and drug testing, whether you need hair, blood, saliva or urine analysis.
Psychiatric/Psychological Assessments
Atkinson Lewis: Psychiatric and Psychological Assessment of Parents and Carers in UK childcare cases. Solicitors, Local Authorities and Family Courts call 01792 578623.
Medical Interpretations
Atkinson Lewis. Substance abuse testing and Medical Interpretation of results. Drug and alcohol tests for UK childcare cases. Solicitors, Local Authorities and Family Courts call 01792 578623.
Mental Capacity Assessment
Atkinson Lewis: mental capacity assessment experts for UK family courts. Call 01792 578623. The assessment begins with a mental state examination, where psychiatrists consider the patient's appearance and behaviour as well as speech, mood, perception and various cognitive functions. Then using the UK's Definition of Capacity (Mental Capacity Act 2005), our experts deliver an assessment based on the following criteria
Clinical Negligence
Atkinson Lewis: support for courts and solicitors managing clinical negligence cases. Expert medical report to assess your claim in full. 01792 578623.
Drug & Alcohol Testing/Analysis
Drug Testing & Drug Detection with Alcohol Testing and Alcohol Detection in Hair
Sample Collections
Sample Collectors. Phlebotomy Trained Collection Officers allowing blood and hair to be taken from a donor in one appointment alleviating the need for a Sample Collectors. Each Sample Collector is an Experienced Phlebotomist, fully trained to take hair and bodily samples and record declared drug and alcohol consumption. Each collector then sends their samples to the Laboratory fully Accredited to European Standards to provide a Laboratory report for Medical Interpretation.
Alcohol Detection in Hair
Alcohol Detection in Hair. Alcohol is the most commonly abused drug in the UK but is legally available in any high street store. Alcohol detection in hair is a relatively new method of detection that our hair analysis laboratory actually pioneered almost 5 years ago. Being the leading European laboratory the technology was available to research into the detection of alcohol in hair as an added analysis to alcohol detection in blood. When looking for alcohol in hair, we measure the markers Ethylglucuronide and Phosphatidylethanol or Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters (FAEE). Detection of these markers are evidence of alcohol consumption. As with drug detection, a sample of head hair is taken close to the head and sent to the laboratory for analysis. Body hair can also be used for analysis. Atkinson Lewis suggest that you carry out a Blood Test for Alcohol alongside that of the hair test for Alcohol to gain a full picture of alcohol use.
CDT - Blood Testing
Everyone has an individual normal level of production of CDT and this is measured as a percentage of the level of Transferrin produced by the liver. (Transferrin is the protein which transfers iron to various parts of the body). Transferrin has molecular Carbohydrate side chains which can be “knocked off” by alcohol, hence the name Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin. This will increase the percentage of CDT and the greater the increase, the greater the amount of alcohol being consumed in most cases. This is a clear way for blood testing for alcohol abuse.
