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2018年7月1日

Micro-segmental hair analysis for proving drug-facilitated crimes: Evidence that a victim ingested a sleeping aid, diphenhydramine, on a specific day

Forensic Science International
  • Kenji Kuwayama
  • Maika Nariai
  • Hajime Miyaguchi
  • Yuko T. Iwata
  • Tatsuyuki Kanamori
  • Kenji Tsujikawa
  • Tadashi Yamamuro
  • Hiroki Segawa
  • Hiroko Abe
  • Hirotaro Iwase
  • Hiroyuki Inoue
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開始ページ
23
終了ページ
28
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
DOI
10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.04.027
出版者・発行元
Elsevier Ireland Ltd

Sleeping aids are often abused in the commission of drug-facilitated crimes. Generally, there is little evidence that a victim ingested a spiked drink unknowingly because the unconscious victim cannot report the situation to the police immediately after the crime occurred. Although conventional segmental hair analysis can estimate the number of months since a targeted drug was ingested, this analysis cannot determine the specific day of ingestion. We recently developed a method of micro-segmental hair analysis using internal temporal markers (ITMs) to estimate the day of drug ingestion. This method was based on volunteer ingestion of ITMs to determine a timescale within individual hair strands, by segmenting a single hair strand at 0.4-mm intervals, corresponding to daily hair growth. This study assessed the ability of this method to estimate the day of ingestion of an over-the-counter sleeping aid, diphenhydramine, which can be easily abused. To model ingestion of a diphenhydramine-spiked drink unknowingly, each subject ingested a dose of diphenhydramine, followed by ingestion of two doses of the ITM, chlorpheniramine, 14 days apart. Several hair strands were collected from each subject's scalp several weeks after the second ITM ingestion. Diphenhydramine and ITM were detected at specific regions within individual hair strands. The day of diphenhydramine ingestion was estimated from the distances between the regions and the days of ITM ingestion. The error between estimated and actual ingestion day ranged from −0.1 to 1.9 days regardless of subjects and hair collection times. The total time required for micro-segmental analysis of 96 hair segments (hair length: 3.84 cm) was approximately 2 days and the cost was almost the same as in general drug analysis. This procedure may be applicable to the investigation of crimes facilitated by various drugs.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.04.027
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29705586
URL
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85046341072&origin=inward
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.04.027
  • ISSN : 1872-6283
  • ISSN : 0379-0738
  • PubMed ID : 29705586
  • SCOPUS ID : 85046341072

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