Table 12.
Substance | Origin | N | Percentagea of the opium alkaloid to the sum | ||||||
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Mean | Min | P25 | Median | P75 | P95 | Max | |||
Morphine | ‘High‐morphine’ | 119 | 50.6 | 0.13 | 6.6 | 70.0 | 80.0 | 97.6 | 98.5 |
‘Low‐morphine’ | 935 | 76.4 | 28.4 | 71.0 | 78.5 | 83.8 | 91.7 | 97.4 | |
Unknown | 143 | 77.3 | 22.6 | 74.3 | 79.8 | 84.4 | 92.2 | 97.1 | |
Total | 1,197 | 73.9 | 0.13 | 70.3 | 78.0 | 83.9 | 92.6 | 98.5 | |
Codeine | ‘High‐morphine’ | 119 | 8.88 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 10.6 | 19.9 | 92.6 |
‘Low‐morphine’ | 935 | 11.6 | 0.8 | 8.1 | 10.5 | 13.9 | 22.7 | 35.7 | |
Unknown | 143 | 11.6 | 1.7 | 6.7 | 9.3 | 12.9 | 32.0 | 52.7 | |
Total | 1,197 | 11.3 | 0.1 | 7.6 | 10.2 | 13.5 | 22.8 | 92.6 | |
Thebaine | ‘High‐morphine’ | 119 | 40.5 | 1.26 | 9.7 | 19.2 | 89.4 | 98.6 | 99.4 |
‘Low‐morphine’ | 935 | 12.1 | 0.12 | 6.8 | 10.5 | 15.9 | 26.0 | 58.0 | |
Unknown | 143 | 11.1 | < 0.1 | 6.4 | 10.0 | 14.2 | 24.7 | 32.6 | |
Total | 1,197 | 14.8 | < 0.1 | 6.8 | 10.8 | 16.6 | 37.2 | 99.4 |
N: number of samples; Max: maximum; Min: minimum; P: percentile.
Calculated by dividing the opium alkaloid upper bound concentration by the sum of the upper bound concentration of morphine, codeine and thebaine, per sample morphine upper bound concentration. Concentrations were expressed as mmol/kg.