Detection of abused drugs in human blood by using the on-site drug-screening device Oratect® III

Legal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 308-313

  Toubou, Hirokazu ^a   Namera, Akira ^a   Arima, Yousuke ^a   Uchida, Yukie ^b   Torikoshi, Aiko ^a   Moriya, Fumio ^c   Nagao, Masataka ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

^c KAWASAKI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drug screening; Forensic toxicology; Oratect III; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

7 AMINOFLUNITRAZEPAM; ALPRAZOLAM; AMPHETAMINE; BROMAZEPAM; CODEINE; DIAZEPAM; DIHYDROCODEINE; ESTAZOLAM; ETHYL LOFLAZEPATE; METHAMPHETAMINE; MORPHINE; NORDAZEPAM; PHENETHYLAMINE; PRAZEPAM; QUAZEPAM; TRIAZOLAM; STREET DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG RAPID TEST; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; ULTRAFILTRATION; BLOOD; DEVICES; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION;

EID: 84905752130     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.04.004     Document Type: Article

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