Blood Codeine Concentrations in Fatalities Associated with Codeine
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Clinical Toxicology
- Vol. 8 (4) , 457-463
- https://doi.org/10.3109/15563657508990077
Abstract
The toxicologic findings in eight cases of death due primarily to codeine overdosage are presented. Blood codeine concentrations ranged from 1.4 to 5.6 mug/ml as determined by gas-liquid chromatography. Morphine was found in only two of the blood samples, at concentrations of 0.2 and 0.6 mug/ml, and may have resulted from heroin usage rather than codeine metabolism. A case of death of a codeine user by violent means is also presented in which the blood codeine concentration was 2.6 mug/ml.Keywords
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