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In reality, the lack of an anticoagulant would have been immediately obvious during sample preparation, owing to the formation of a large clot in the tube when received. Certain impairing drugs (e.g., cocaine and 6-acetylmorphine) are unstable in blood and tend to degrade without an enzyme inhibitor, such as sodium fluoride, present. 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