ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1980
Page Count: 5

Detection of Drugs in Bloodstains. II: Morphine
Mortimer, CE
Research assistant professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pa

Smith, FP
Assistant professor, University of Alabama in Birmingham,

Errichetto, LT
Criminalist, Criminalistics Bureau, Nev

Shaler, RC
Director of serology, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, N.Y.

(Received 1 May 1979; accepted 19 October 1979)

Abstract

Picogram quantities of the opiate alkaloid, morphine, were detected in a 50-μ1 samples of dried bloodstain by using radioimmunoassay. The age of the stain versus detectability of morphine, the separation of endogenous interfering substances, and morphine extractibility by various agents were investigated.

Keywords:
toxicology, morphine, blood

Paper ID: JFS12138J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12138J
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