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Following the international control of N, N-dimethylpentylone (DMP) in 2024, N-isopropyl butylone (NiPB) was increasingly detected in forensic toxicological casework as the prevalence of DMP declined. However, limited data currently exist regarding NiPB\u2019s concentration ranges in forensic investigations. This report describes a validated liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (LC-QQQ-MS) method for the quantitation of NiPB in biological specimens, which was applied to the analysis of drugged driving (n\u2009=\u20091) and postmortem (n\u2009=\u200915) cases. The driving under the influence of drugs case yielded a NiPB blood concentration of 16 ng\/mL, whereas the remaining 15 cases demonstrated blood concentrations ranging from &amp;lt;1 to 1400 ng\/mL. For one case, NiPB was quantitated in blood, vitreous fluid, and urine, with concentrations of 18, 17, and 2200 ng\/mL, respectively. 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