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LC-MS: The Axiological Analysis Of Drugs In Her Body

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After spending time with her friends one evening, a 30-year-old woman went missing. Three years later, her body was found in her own car in Lake Como that was 120 meters in depth. Even though the examination showed that there wasn’t any violence, it was said that she was an alcoholic, marijuana consumer, and suffered from depression. Many methods were used to find drugs in her body during the autopsy. The toxicological analysis by GC-MS was used to test the fluids and some tissues in her body. Another method that was used was the LC-MS/MS to analyze drugs found in her body, too. LC-MS/MS was used to compute ethyl glucuronide in her pubic hair as well as the GC-MS analysis was used to discover the misconduct of drugs in her pubic hair. After

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