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2-Methoxyqualone, a new recreational drug, discovered from a package seized by the police: a preliminary report

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This study was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81860331).

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  1. Hongkun Yang and Shuyun Wang contributed equally to this study.

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  1. Department of Legal Medicine, College of Basic Medical Science, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, 010010, China

    Hongkun Yang, Jinlei Liu, Yue Wang, Jie Gu & Amin Wurita

  2. Drug Control Detachment of Huhhot Public Security Bureau, Huhhot, 010050, China

    Shuyun Wang

  3. The Public Security Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, 010050, China

    Haitao Qi

  4. Department of Legal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, 413-3192, Japan

    Koutaro Hasegawa

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Yang, H., Wang, S., Qi, H. et al. 2-Methoxyqualone, a new recreational drug, discovered from a package seized by the police: a preliminary report. Forensic Toxicol 40, 414–416 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11419-022-00626-w

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