Re: Re: question-more will be revealed....

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hi chris, yep it does...the seminal article is out of finland where they have been usng this for screening published in alcohol and alcoholism 2004 vol 39 #1 p59-63. if this test is normal in the face of a false positive urine the test that is more specific wins,ie the cdt...in finland cdt has been the screening and monitoring test of choice for several years...more specific,monitors for a longer period of time than etg...blood biomarkers always more specific than urine...example no one manages diabetes with urine sugars,always blood sugars,but this is what is being done to the disease of alcholism...monitoring and punishment based on a supersensitive non-specific test...the problem is we are way behind finland and a lot of folks have placed their bets on egt as the gold standard... i do know that

both betty ford and dr mccauley at sober living by the sea are becoming aware of the value of cdt and are using it,but things are moving slowly...most of the powers that be seem to have a vested interest in egt. oh,and trivial environmental exposure does not effect cdt... just my opinion..more will be revealed...regards,robincrssemc@... wrote: Hi robin~ so in essence this test measures repeated alcohol use?? What about exposure

(dermatological/inhalation). I'm sorry to be so thick headed with this but my state doesn't care if you drank only that there is some type of alcohol in your system. How can this test prove it to be wrong if this is just another biomarker? Chris