“Skin Popping” and “Shooter’s Patch” As Manifestations of Intradermal Drug Abuse

Talc, a common adulterant in injectable opioids and filler in oral tablets, is frequently abused as crushed suspensions in injections. This review aims to recognize intradermal drug injection referred to colloquially as “skin popping” or “shooter’s patch” as a cause of granulomatous disease and prev...

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Autores principales: Samynathan, Archana, Saardi, Kaarl, Akiska, Yagiz M, Sadur, Alana, Johnson, Skylar, Nasseri, Mana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10576613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842500
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45251
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description Talc, a common adulterant in injectable opioids and filler in oral tablets, is frequently abused as crushed suspensions in injections. This review aims to recognize intradermal drug injection referred to colloquially as “skin popping” or “shooter’s patch” as a cause of granulomatous disease and prevention of systemic complications from cutaneous cues.
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spelling pubmed-105766132023-10-15 “Skin Popping” and “Shooter’s Patch” As Manifestations of Intradermal Drug Abuse Samynathan, Archana Saardi, Kaarl Akiska, Yagiz M Sadur, Alana Johnson, Skylar Nasseri, Mana Cureus Dermatology Talc, a common adulterant in injectable opioids and filler in oral tablets, is frequently abused as crushed suspensions in injections. This review aims to recognize intradermal drug injection referred to colloquially as “skin popping” or “shooter’s patch” as a cause of granulomatous disease and prevention of systemic complications from cutaneous cues. Cureus 2023-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10576613/ /pubmed/37842500 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45251 Text en Copyright © 2023, Samynathan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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