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Sleep Monitoring as a Method for Detecting Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse  


Author:  Christopher Crucilla.; Douglas Stellato Kabat.


Source: Volume 18, Number 01, Winter/Spring 2005 , pp.4-5(2)




Journal of Offender Monitoring

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Abstract: 

The SleepTime™ substance abuse monitor is one of a new generation of alcohol and other drug abuse monitors that permit 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week alcohol and other drug abuse monitoring. This article reviews the clinical knowledge gained from leading sleeps studies on the impact of alcohol on sleep and the development and use of SleepTime™ system, a wrist-worn device, to remotely detect and report on the use of alcohol or drugs.

Keywords: Sleep studies; actigraphy; EtG testing

Affiliations:  1: Drug Impairment Detection Services, LLC; 2: Drug Impairment Detection Services, LLC.

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