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  • Pharmacokinetics

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  • Determining the role of drugs in death is a critical forensic challenge.
  • Postmortem drug concentration analysis is controversial due to potential variability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between antemortem and postmortem morphine concentrations.
  • To assess the reliability of postmortem morphine levels in clinical and forensic contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited eleven subjects receiving morphine in a hospital setting.
  • Collected antemortem and postmortem blood samples for analysis.
  • Measured free and total morphine concentrations in all samples.

Main Results:

  • A statistically significant increase in free morphine concentration postmortem (median difference 25.5 µg/L, p < 0.01).
  • No significant difference observed in total morphine concentration between antemortem and postmortem samples.
  • Indicated an inconstant and tenuous relationship between ante- and postmortem morphine levels.

Conclusions:

  • Postmortem free morphine concentrations show significant variability compared to antemortem levels.
  • The findings support previous research highlighting the unreliability of postmortem morphine concentrations alone.
  • Caution is advised when interpreting postmortem morphine data in forensic investigations.