Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions in an outpatient maintenance therapy of intravenous heroin users with levomethadone

Addiction Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 105-113

  Schall, Ulrich ^a   Pries, Ellen ^a   Katta, Taleb ^a   Klöppel, Achim ^a   Gastpar, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0013575071     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355621961000124736     Document Type: Article

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