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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Forensic Sci Int. 2016 Jan 22;260:95–101. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.01.013

Table 3.

Median (range) pharmacokinetic parameters for cocaine and benzoylecgonine (BE) in oral fluid (N = 10 participants) following 25 mg intravenous (IV) cocaine administration collected with Oral-Eze (OE) and StatSure (SS) collection devices up to 69 h.

Oral-Eze StatSure

Cocaine BE Cocaine BE
Cmax (μg/L) 932 (394–1,574)* 248 (96.9–953)* 732 (83.3–1,892) 360 (77.2–836)
Tmax (h) 0.34 (0.17–1)* 0.5 (0.17–1)* 0.17 (0.17–0.5) 0.5 (0.17–1)
T1/2 (h) 1.3 (0.6–2.2)* 6.9 (4.4–12.1)* 0.89 (0.57–1.4)§ 6.6 (4.1–14.1)§
AUC0-69h (h x μg/L) 802 (314–1,447) 814 (425–1,801) 467 (174–1,378) 670 (390–1,298)
Tlast (h) 12.5 (4–69)* 30.5 (21–69)* 6.5 (4–45)§ 28 (21–69)§
Clast (μg/L) 1.9 (1.0–35.1) 2.8 (1.1–20.8) 5.3 (1.0–26.6) 3.5 (1–11.4)

Cmax maximum concentration detected, Tmax time of maximum concentration, T1/2 terminal half-life, AUC area under the curve, Clast last detected concentration, Tlast time of last detected concentration

Significant difference P < 0.05:

*

OE cocaine versus BE;

§

SS cocaine versus BE;

OE versus SS cocaine;

OE versus SS BE