Micro-extraction of commonly abused benzodiazepines for urinary screening by liquid chromatography

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-67

  Wolff, Kim ^a   Garretty, Deborah ^a   Hay, Alastair W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlordiazepoxide; Diazepam; Drug abuse; Nitrazepam

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; NITRAZEPAM; NORDAZEPAM; OXAZEPAM; TEMAZEPAM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0031014234     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000456329703400109     Document Type: Article

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