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Eleven morphine naïve patients with cancer-related pain were given a single dose of either intravenous morphine (n = 5) or oral morphine (n = 6). Blood sampling was performed over a 24-hr period and serial pain assessments were made using a categorical scale. Plasma samples were analyzed for
Hair testing procedures allow a cumulative reflection of long-term drug abuse and are useful as a test for compliance in clinical toxicology. In the present study, liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry was used to determine analgesic opioid drugs in hair samples. The procedure
Morphine (M) is recommended by the World Health Organization as the treatment of choice for moderate-to-severe cancer pain. Development of sensitive radioimmunoassays (RIA) and high-performance liquid chromatography in the past 20 years has allowed study of the pharmacokinetics of M, which remain