Phencyclidine in umbilical cord blood: preliminary data
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (4) , 450-452
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.4.450
Abstract
The epidemic abuse of phencyclidine (PCP) has become a major psychiatric issue within the past decade. With the assistance of highly sensitive capillary gas chromatographic-nitrogen detector measurements, PCP''s true pervasiveness is only now being appreciated. Samples of umbilical cord blood from 200 patients on the obstetrics service of a major university medical center were analyzed. Preliminary results revealed that 24 (12%) of the samples were positive for PCP (0.10-5.80 ng/ml). The significance of this finding with regard to psychiatry, obstetrics, pediatrics and juvenile law is discussed.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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