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A qualitative study of overdose responses among Chicago IDUs

BACKGROUND: Opioid overdose is a leading cause of death among injection drug users. Over half of injection drug users report at least one nonfatal overdose during their lifetime. Death from opioid overdose rarely occurs instantaneously, but rather over the course of one to three hours, allowing ampl...

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Autores principales: Sherman, Susan G, Gann, Donald S, Scott, Gregory, Carlberg, Suzanne, Bigg, Dan, Heimer, Robert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2245921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18218071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-5-2