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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Forensic Sci Int. 2014 May 14;241:87–90. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.04.042

Table 1.

Pharmacokinetics & positive prevalence results for morphine and codeine in urine samples collected over 32h from 19 subjects receiving two oral poppy seed doses each containing 15.7mg morphine and 3mg codeine separated by 8h.

Minimum Maximum Median Mean SD1 SEM2
Morphine peak concentration μg/L 2413 7522 5239 5248 1154 288
Codeine peak concentration μg/L 284 1540 658 718 253 63
Morphine 2000 μg/L cutoff
 Time to first positive h 1.2 12.1 6.6
 Time 2nd dose to last positive h 2.6 18.3 12.2
 Number positive before 2nd dose 0 4 1
 Number positive after 2nd dose 1 6 3
Morphine 300 μg/L cutoff
 Time to first positive h 0.80 2.4 1.4
Codeine 300 μg/L
 Time to first positive h 1.6 19.5 6.6
 Time 2nd dose to last positive h 2.6 14.0 8.8
 Number positive before 2nd dose 0 3 1
 Number positive after 2nd dose 0 5 3
1

Standard deviation

2

Standard error of the mean