Fatal heroin 'overdose': A review

Addiction

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1765-1772

  Darke, Shane ^a   Zador, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL SYDNEY AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DIAMORPHINE; MORPHINE;

DRUG ABUSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OVERDOSE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 0030476414     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb03800.x     Document Type: Review

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