Methadone Concentrations in Exhaled Breath Condensate, Serum and Urine of Patients Under Maintenance Treatment

Drug abuse is a serious problem causing health, economical and psycho-social negative outcomes. Methadone is commonly used drug for management of drug addiction. Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is a promising non-invasive biological sample which attracted more attention in recent years. This work aimed to extend the applicability of a developed preconcentration – liquid chromatographic method for analysis of methadone in serum and urine samples. Drug concentrations in EBC, serum and urine are also investigated for dose-concentration and their inter-correlations. Biological samples were collected from 53 patients receiving methadone and the concentrations were determined using a validated analytical method after a pre-concentration step. Methadone measured in all samples and there are correlations between administered dose of methadone and its serum and urine concentrations. A weak correlation is observed between dose and EBC concentration. Wider variations in EBC concentrations of methadone could be justified concerning a number of affecting parameters such as relative humidity of the collection area and further investigations are required for standardization of EBC as a non-invasive biological sample to be used in clinical practice.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research

• Publication date

  2017-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.22037/IJPR.2017.2127PMID 29552071PMCID 5843324
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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