Testing Alkaoid levels Opium in Theory.

[samuraigecko]

Hi again,

SWIM was showing me something VERY funny to One on the internet the other day and it occurred to him that he may be able to test his theoretical solutions in this way. Opiate test kits are available pretty much world wide and though SWIM is yet to test this he suspects that it may be a handy thing for Interested scientists to perform theoretical tests. Here are a few examples that test URINE for opiates.

http://www.drugalcoholtestkits.com/ACO14.asp
and
http://www.drugtestz.com/opi-opiate-...card-p-11.html

These test urine for opiates in ng/ml saturation in urine format and only test either positive or negative within the respective cut-off points. This can perhaps be applied to "tea" solutions in some way to detect if opiates are present. This would be especially handy for One whom may have made poppy seed tea which can be of dubious alkaloid content. SWIM tells me that he is searching more and more to find something a little more accurate than either positive or negative within a cut-off point and is also looking for a conversion for theoretical limits like ng/ml urine present to mg/alkaloid taken to achieve the result ng/mg result.

The main things which SWIM is researching is (and any other SWIM's may put any help or input into this as it can also help prevent any OD's or deaths due to non-scientists performing tests on themselves) CAN alkaloid content be determined inexpensively with any kind of test kit? Is there a test kit out there which will show better than a positive or negative result such as mg/ml accurately? (or as accurate as possible) Is a conversion from ng/ml to mg/ml too high for the cut off points?

Example: ng/ml is nanogram per milliliter of liquid, so it seems to SWIM that 1000ng/ml = 1mg/ml liquid? (please tell me if He is wrong so i can inform him) Assuming that is correct the cutoff point for low detection would be 2mg/ml urine since the cut-off point for most test kits is 2000ng/ml.

This it turns out is totally wrong since he found a table which may be useful to some people.

milligram = 10 to the minus 3 grams
microgram = 10 to the minus 6 grams
nanogram = 10 to the minus 9 grams
picogram = 10 to the minus 12 gramsso that would mean . . .

pound (avdp)(16 ounces) 453.6 grams
ton, gross or long (2,240 lb) 1.016 metric ton
ton, short or net (2,000 lb) 0.907 metric ton
milligram 10 to the minus 3 grams
microgram 10 to the minus 6 grams
nanogram 10 to the minus 9 grams
picogram 10 to the minus 12 grams
1 mg/kg or 1 mg/L 1 ppm
1 ug/kg or 1 ug/L 1 ppb
1 mg/g 1000 ppm
1 ug/g 1 ppm
1 nanogram/g 1 ppb
1 picogram/g 1 ppt

So a nanogram (ng) would be in "parts per billion" meaning 1 billion nanograms = 1g = 1000mg

10 to the minus of X is the amount of Zero's that follow one assumes and will tell SWIM to research further because he is more knowledgeable with maths.

Something for One to look into is One was so inclined. And please research for SWIY if one is so inclined as this information could prove invaluable to budding scientists / pharmacologists / chemists etc whom are studying this.