Logan B K, Oliver J S, Smith H
Department of Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow, U.K.
Forensic Sci Int. 1987 Oct-Nov;35(2-3):189-95. doi: 10.1016/0379-0738(87)90055-7.
A method for the determination of morphine is post-mortem blood by HPLC with electrochemical detection is described. Blood morphine levels in post-mortem cases are reported and the importance of these in causing death is discussed. These post-mortem levels are compared further with morphine levels in the blood of patients receiving morphine as an analgesic.