The distribution of naloxone to heroin users

Addiction

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1195-1200

  Darke, Shane ^a   Hall, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SAFETY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RESUSCITATION; SHORT SURVEY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030794857     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1997.tb03681.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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