Kuwayama, Kenji http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0782-8842
Miyaguchi, Hajime
Iwata, Yuko T.
Kanamori, Tatsuyuki
Tsujikawa, Kenji
Yamamuro, Tadashi
Segawa, Hiroki
Inoue, Hiroyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K08894)
Article History
Received: 22 January 2019
Accepted: 17 March 2019
First Online: 27 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: There are no conflicts of interest to declare.
: The victim was asked to participate in an experiment in which healthy subjects ingest over-the-counter medicines at normal doses and then donate their hair to be examined for drug distribution. The experiment was approved by the ethics committee at the National Research Institute of Police Science (Kashiwa, Japan). The victim willingly accepted the request in order to contribute to advances in criminal investigation and forensic toxicology. Informed consent was obtained to have the victim become a subject for the experiment.