Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2022 Feb 17;42(8):1026–1031. doi: 10.1038/s41372-022-01335-3

Table 2:

The range and mean/median exposures for the most prevalent substances (n = 21 – 836)

Exposure levels
Substance n Geomean
or median*
(ng/mL)
95% CI Range (ng/mL)
Cotinine 836 144.4 124.6 – 167.3 4.0 – 4157.0
THCCOOH 286 59.3 49.4 – 73.7 3.3 – 2547.9
THCOH 152 96.5 * 79.4 – 121.0 20.2 – 3601.6
Benzoylecgonine 95 7.5 * 6.2 – 10.8 2.0 – 2971.4
Methamphetamine 48 59.3 32.7 – 107.7 4.2 – 1904.6
Morphine 50 218.6 121.3 – 393.9 8.90 – 9222.6
Fentanyl 42 20.4 10.3 – 40.4 0.8 – 846
Norfentanyl 56 118.4 58.6 – 239.4 4.3 – 9265.1
Methadone 22 357.7 * 307.2 – 420.7 3.8 – 491.1
EDDP 21 1078.6 * 706.1 – 1565.1 48.7 – 4799.6
Buprenorphine 46 121.5 79.8 – 185.1 6.1 – 1419.9
Norbuprenorphine 49 607.1 * 340.7 – 879.6 17.1 – 5105.9