Identification of 2C-B in Hair by UHPLC-HRMS/MS. A Real Forensic Case.

ABSTRACT: The analysis of drugs of abuse in hair and other biological matrices of forensic interest requires great selectivity and sensitivity. This has been traditionally achieved through target analysis, using one or more analytical methods that include different preanalytical stages, and more complex procedures followed by toxicological laboratories. There is no exception with 2C-series drugs, such as 2C-B, a new psychoactive substance (NPS), which use has emerged and significantly increased, year by year, in the last decades. Continuously new analytical methods are required to selectively detect and identify these new marketed substances at very low concentrations. In this case report, one former case of a polydrug consumer (charged of a crime against public health in Spain) was reanalyzed in ha

SUBMITTER: Matey JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8309701 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature