It should be noted here that there are test kits available over the counter to exclude some drug toxicosis, but their specificity and sensitivity vary so much that if there is
any chance of amphetamine toxicosis, it is dangerous to waste time on these tests.
He published a 10 - year review
of drug deaths in Scotland which showed that the
chances of newspapers reporting a death from an overdose
of paracetamol (acetaminophen) was 1 in 250, a death from
amphetamine was 1 in 3 and that every death from ecstasy was reported.