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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chem. 2009 Jan 23;55(3):454–462. doi: 10.1373/clinchem.2008.117093

Table 1.

Detection rates and percentage of patches positive for MDMA and MDA in sweat patches during and after MDMA administration and in washout sweat patches at the limits of quantification and proposed SAMHSA cutoffs (25 ng/patch). LOQs were 2.5 ng/patch for MDMA and 5 ng/patch for MDA.

Total patches (N = 559) MDMA MDA MDMA only MDA only MDMA & MDA Total
LOQ (ng/patch) 2.5 5
≥LOQ 360 174 196 10 164 370
Positive, % 64.4 31.1 35.1 1.8 29.3 66.2
Range, ng/patch 2.5−3007.7 5.0−171.2 2.5−346.6 5.8−41.1
≥SAMHSA cutoff (25 ng/patch) 217 58 162 3 55 220
SAMHSA positive, % 38.8 10.4 29 0.5 89.8 39.4
Washout patches (n = 81) MDMA MDA MDMA only MDA only MDMA & MDA Total
≥LOQ 22 14 13 5 9 27
% Positive, % 27.2 17.3 16 9.8 11.1 33.3
Range, ng/patch 2.6−287.2 6.4−31.7 2.6−25.7 9.2−20.4
≥SAMHSA cutoff (25 ng/patch) 7 2 1 6 1 8
SAMHSA positive, % 8.6 2.5 1.2 7.4 1.2 9.9