Opiate drugs: 'Guilt by association'. Newer opioids may offer safer therapeutics

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 122-123

  Evans, C J ^a   Monteillet Agius, G ^a   Saliminejad, N ^a   Zaki, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; ETORPHINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

CONSTIPATION; DRUG POTENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0034053498     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4000739     Document Type: Short Survey

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