Deaths from drugs of abuse in Sheffield 1997-1999: What are the implications for GPs prescribing to heroin addicts?

Family Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 93-94

  Oliver, Phillip ^a   Keen, Jenny ^a,b   Mathers, Nigel ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Community Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Deaths; Heroin; Methadone

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE; BUTANE; CODEINE; MEPTAZINOL; METHADONE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PRESCRIPTION; TIME; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036179808     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/19.1.93     Document Type: Article

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1. Role of maintenance treatment in opioid dependence
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3. Mortality in heroin addiction: Impact of methadone treatment
4. Effects of diazepam on arterial blood gas concentrations and pH of adult rats acutely and chronically exposed to methadone