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Due to the difficulty in detection by routine toxicology methods, it is important to enhance the analytical methods for the identification and quantitation of designer benzodiazepines. The aim of this study was to identify and quantify designer benzodiazepines using gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC\u2010MS) in postmortem blood specimens. A method originally validated to identify and quantitate alprazolam was modified to quantitate flualprazolam, etizolam, and bromazolam, as well as identify adinazolam and 4\u2032\u2010chloro\u2010deschloroalprazolam. The method was subsequently used to analyze postmortem specimens (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u200935) from Medical Examiner Districts (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20094) in Florida that screened positive for one or more designer benzodiazepines from February 2022 to December 2023. 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