Complications of ultrarapid opioid detoxification with subcutaneous naltrexone pellets

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-68

  Hoffman, Robert S ^a   Lewin, Neal L ^a   Nelson, Lewis S ^a   Hung, Oliver L ^a   Olmedo, Ruben E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Detoxification; Heroin; Naltrexone; Opioids; Rapid detoxification; Ultrarapid detoxification

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; CLONIDINE; DIAMORPHINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LORAZEPAM; METHADONE; NALTREXOL; NALTREXONE; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE AGONIST; PARACETAMOL; PHENOBARBITAL; TRAZODONE; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DRUG IMPLANTATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OLIGURIA; OPIATE ADDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOMITING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG IMPLANTS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PULMONARY EDEMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

EID: 0036140773     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.1.63     Document Type: Article

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