“…The combination of pentazocine and naloxone is used to reduce pain that is extreme requiring opioid therapy as it may not be tolerated or other pain medications have not worked well enough [13,14]. Pentazocine was quantified in pharmaceutical samples [15][16][17], human serum [18], human plasma [19][20][21], human urine [21,22], and whole human blood [22] using visible spectrophotometry [15,16], Thin-layer chromatography [17], high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) [18][19][20], potentiometry [21], and gas chromatography [22]. Naloxone was quantified in microparticles [23], dosage forms [24], transdermal formulations [25], human plasma [26][27][28], human urine [28], and human liver microsomes [28] using spectrophotometry [23], HPLC [23][24][25][26][27], and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry [28].…”