Flualprazolam Blood Concentrations in 197 Forensic Investigation Cases
Flualprazolam Blood Concentrations in 197 Forensic Investigation Cases
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DOI:
10.1093/jat/bkaa070
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发表时间:
2021-04-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Logan, Barry K.
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作者:
Papsun, Donna M.;Krotulski, Alex J.;Logan, Barry K.
Flualprazolam is a designer benzodiazepine and novel psychoactive substance that is increasing in prevalence and appearing in forensic investigations. Flualprazolam was quantitatively confirmed in 197 blood samples from medicolegal death investigations and human performance cases reported between August 2019 and February 2020. Drug screening was performed using liquid chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry and quantitative confirmation was performed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. A three-point standard addition protocol was implemented for quantitation in the absence of an available traditionally validated assay. In postmortem cases with quantitative results (n = 167), the mean (+/- standard deviation [SD]) flualprazolam concentration was 20 (+/- 63) ng/mL, the median concentration was 8.2 ng/mL and the range of concentrations was 2.0-620 ng/mL. Four additional postmortem cases were reported positive (