Acute opioid withdrawal in the emergency department: Inadvertent naltrexone abuse?

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 359-363

  Bristow, Katherine ^a   Meek, Robert ^a   Clark, Nicholas ^b  

^a DANDENONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heroin; Naltrexone; Opioid; Opioid withdrawal

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DIAMORPHINE; DIAZEPAM; METHADONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; NALTREXONE; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROPOFOL; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG ABUSE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COLIC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; NALTREXONE; NARCOTICS; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 0034807690     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1035-6851.2001.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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