Understanding Heroin Overdose: A Study of the Acute Respiratory Depressant Effects of Injected Pharmaceutical Heroin

Opioids are respiratory depressants and heroin/opioid overdose is a major contributor to the excess mortality of heroin addicts. The individual and situational variability of respiratory depression caused by intravenous heroin is poorly understood. This study used advanced respiratory monitoring to...

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Autores principales: Jolley, Caroline J., Bell, James, Rafferty, Gerrard F., Moxham, John, Strang, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26495843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140995

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26495843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140995

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