"Grievous bodily harm:" Gamma hydroxybutyrate abuse leading to a Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 469-471

  Friedman, Joseph ^a,c   Westlake, Robert ^b   Furman, Martin ^b  

^a ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ILLICIT DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY BUILDING; CASE REPORT; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; SODIUM OXYBATE; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0029998813     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.2.469     Document Type: Article

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