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Association between altitude, prescription opioid misuse, and fatal overdoses

OBJECTIVE: Prescription opioid misuse and fatal overdoses have increased significantly over the last two decades. Living at altitude has been linked to greater reward benefits of other drugs of abuse, and living at altitude may also exacerbate the respiratory depression linked to opioid use. Therefo...

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Autores principales: Ombach, Hendrik J., Scholl, Lindsay S., Bakian, Amanda V., Renshaw, Kai T., Sung, Young-Hoon, Renshaw, Perry F., Kanekar, Shami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6542744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31193784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100167