Medical Complications of Cocaine Abuse

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 315, Issue 23, 1986, Pages 1495-1500

  Cregler, Louis L ^a   Mark, Herbert ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; DIAZEPAM; NITRENDIPINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ABUSE; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AORTA; AORTA RUPTURE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG THERAPY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HAIR LOSS; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTOXICATION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG TOXICITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NOSE SEPTUM PERFORATION; PHARMACOLOGY; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUPTURE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THERAPY;

EID: 0022908171     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198612043152327     Document Type: Article

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