[Quantifying the chemical composition of crack-cocaine (bazuco) samples seized in Colombia during the first half of 2010]. / Composición química de muestras de bazuco incautado en Colombia primer semestre de 2010.
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota)
; 14(6): 1014-25, 2012 Oct.
Article
em Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24892441
OBJECTIVES: Quantifying crack-cocaine (known locally as bazuco or smokable cocaine base paste-PBC) use and identifying other components in study conditions regarding samples of crack-cocaine seized in Colombia and held by the Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science Narcotics Laboratory in Bogota during the first half of 2010. METHODS: A cross-sectional, exploratory analytical study was carried out for chemically characterizing crack-cocaine samples by the gas chromatography analytical methodology using ion trap mass spectrometry developed and validated in the Universidad National de Colombia's Medicine Faculty's Toxicology Laboratory in Bogota. RESULTS: A 4 % to 70 % w/w cocaine base concentration was found in the 109 samples tested (37 % w/w mean); 73 % of the samples had 20 % to 50 % w/w concentration. Other coca alkaloids were identified, such astropacocaine, trans-cinnamoylcocaine, norcocaine and ecgonine methyl ester. Caffeine was identified as an adulterantin 57 % of the samples and phenacetin in 2.8 % of them. DISCUSSION: The toxicological significance of the results concerning crack-cocaine consumers was quantified, given the profile for chronic users.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cocaína Crack
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Colombia
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota)
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Colômbia