A Quantitative LC-MS/MS Method for the Detection of 16 Synthetic Cathinones and 10 Metabolites and Its Application to Suspicious Clinical and Forensic Urine Samples.
Abdulaziz A AldubayyanErika CastrignanòSimon P ElliottVincenzo AbbatePublished in: Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
This is the first report of NPS use in Saudi Arabia with respect to designer stimulant drugs. Confirmatory urine analyses for suspicious stimulant use should extend beyond classical stimulants to cover a broad range of NPSs and their metabolites in order to report any otherwise potentially undetected/new analyte.