The significance of putative urinary markers of illicit heroin use after consumption of poppy seed products

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 552-558

  Trafkowski, Jens ^a   Madea, Burkhard ^a   Musshoff, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood; Heroin markers; LC MS; Papaverine; Poppy seed; Urine

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCODEINE; ALKALOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CODEINE; DIAMORPHINE; GLUCURONIDE; ILLICIT DRUG; MORPHINE; NOSCAPINE; OPIATE; PAPAVERINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG MONITORING; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEAT TEST; URINALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CODEINE; GLUCURONIDES; HEROIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHINE; MORPHINE DERIVATIVES; NOSCAPINE; PAPAVERACEAE; PAPAVERINE; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SEEDS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SWEAT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746812689     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007691-200608000-00011     Document Type: Article

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