1. LSD in pubic hair in a fatality
- Author
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Florence Lamballais, Julie Maublanc, Gérard Lachâtre, Jean-Michel Gaulier, and Sophie Bargel
- Subjects
Hallucinogen ,Adult ,Male ,Low dosage ,Context (language use) ,Urine ,Genitalia, Male ,Post mortem blood ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Asphyxia ,Forensic Toxicology ,Young Adult ,Fatal Outcome ,Tandem Mass Spectrometry ,medicine ,Humans ,Lysergic acid diethylamide ,Chromatography ,Chemistry ,Phosphate buffered saline ,Respiratory Aspiration ,Pubic hair ,Gastrointestinal Contents ,Substance Abuse Detection ,Lysergic Acid Diethylamide ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Hallucinogens ,Law ,medicine.drug ,Chromatography, Liquid ,Hair - Abstract
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a potent hallucinogen, active at very low dosage and its determination in body fluids in a forensic context may present some difficulties, even more so in hair. A dedicated liquid chromatography–electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry (LC–ES-MS/MS) assay in hair was used to document the case of a 24-year-old man found dead after a party. Briefly, after a decontamination step, a 50 mg sample of the victim's pubic hair was cut into small pieces (
- Published
- 2011