Drug of Abuse Testing Market Deals, Size, Revenue, Gross Margin and Market Share to 2020

Drug of Abuse Testing Market Information, by Test type (Onsite Screening Test, Laboratory Drug Testing), by Sample (Urine, Hair, Saliva) - Forecast to 2020

Market Scenario

The use of illicit drugs is rising every year globally and has become a big concern for countries including the U.S., the U.K. Japan, Germany, India and China. Illicit drugs in use include heroin, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamine. Global cocaine seizures increased to 671 tons in 2012, compared with the 634 tons seized in 2011.

The main increase in the quantities of cocaine seized was in South America and Western and Central Europe. Some of the new psychoactive substances (NPS) like, phenethylamines, ketamine, piperazine and tryptamines, are also being used widely in the drug market.

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Key Players

Roche Holding Limited, Quest Diagnostics, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Alere Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Randox Laboratories Ltd, Psychemedics Corporation, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc, Sonic Healthcare and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and others are some of the major players in the Global Drug of Abuse Testing Market.

Segmentation

Global drug of abuse testing market is mainly segmented into test type and samples. Furthermore the test type is segmented into onsite screening test and laboratory drug testing. On the bases of samples the market is segmented into urine, hair, saliva and others.

Key Finding

The global drug of abuse testing market is expected to reach $3.0 billion in 2020, mainly driven by increased use of illicit drugs and need of drug abuse testing at organizational level.

Onsite testing market is more than double the size of laboratory testing due to ease of use, cost effectiveness and immediate results.

Urine followed by saliva is the most common specimen used in the drug of abuse testing. Hair as a specimen is also becoming a more effective way for testing long term drug use.

North America was the largest market by geography for drug abuse testing in 2014, with 76.4% share of the total market

Regional Analysis:

In North America, the usage of cocaine has been declining since 2006, partly due to a sustained shortage. However, more recently, a slight increase in prevalence of cocaine has been observed in the U.S., as there has been an increase in maritime seizures.

In Europe, cannabis is by far the most commonly consumed illicit substance, with an estimated 24 million users (4.3% of those aged 15 years to 64 years), followed by cocaine with 3.7 million users in 2013.

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By far the highest prevalence of injecting drug use, with a rate 4.6 times the global average, is found in Eastern/South-Eastern Europe, where 1.3% of the population aged 15-64 are estimated to have recently injected drugs. Although the general public may perceive cannabis to be the least harmful illicit drug, between 2003 and 2012 the proportion of total treatment admissions for cannabis increased in Western and Central Europe, from 19% to 25%.

In Asia, it is estimated that cannabis is the most common illicit substance, with an annual prevalence of use of 1.9%, followed by ATS (excluding ecstasy) at 0.7%, ecstasy at 0.4%, opiates at 0.4% and cocaine at 0.1%, among those aged 15-64 years. The use of methamphetamine continues to rise in most of the countries in East and South-East Asia, with accompanying seizures of methamphetamine in pill and crystalline forms reaching record levels in 2012.

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