摘要：Increasing analytical routine tests for sympathomimetic amines (SMA) are now playing an important part for technical experts working in the prefectural police agencies, accompanying with the increased abuse of drugs like methamphetamine and amphetamine, since 1970. In recent years, fine technical and methodological resolution are often claimed for the purity test of seized SMA or the material sources of the drugs, in the detection of SMA and their metabolites excreted in human urine. These established high levels of the analytical criteria may have a validity as an evidence in the court. This article reviews recent methodological problems for the analyses of SMA and related compounds, the extraction and determination of the drugs, and their metabolites excreted in human urine.
