Investigations concerning the threshold value between endogenous and exogenous GHB (liquid ecstasy);Untersuchungen zum grenzwert zwischen endogener und exogener γ-hydroxybuttersäure (GHB/liquid ecstasy)

Archiv fur Kriminologie

Volumn 217, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 129-136

  Erdmann, Freidoon ^a   Zandt, Daniel ^a   Auch, Jürgen ^a   Schütz, Harald ^a,b   Weiler, Günter ^a   Verhoff, Marcel A ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b c/o Institut für Rechtsmedizin ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

"Liquid ecstasy"; GC MS; GHB, blood levels

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EUPHORIA; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HALLUCINOGENS; HUMANS; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MALE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 33745833067     PISSN: 00039225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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