Abstract
Opioids including heroin and commonly prescribed drugs such as oxycodone and fentanyl are among the most commonly abused drugs. In recent years, the abuse of opioids has spread beyond these commonly encountered analytes and now includes novel psychoactive drugs such as AH-7921 and U47700 and a variety of fentanyl-related compounds such as acetyl fentanyl and furanyl fentanyl. The assay described is for the quantitative determination of 19 designer opioids in serum, plasma, and whole blood. Also included is a discussion on the challenges of keeping an analytical method current as new analytes appear on the illicit drug market.
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Kacinko, S.L., Homan, J.W. (2019). Quantification of Designer Opioids by Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry. In: Langman, L., Snozek, C. (eds) LC-MS in Drug Analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1872. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8823-5_15
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