Effect of innappropriate naltrexone use in a heroin misuser

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 381-382

  Boyce, Steve H ^a   Armstrong, P A R ^a   Stevenson, J ^a  

^a CROSSHOUSE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CANNABINOID; DIAMORPHINE; DROPERIDOL; MIDAZOLAM; NALTREXONE; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEADACHE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SMOKING; SWEATING; TABLET; TOXICITY TESTING; VIOLENCE; VOMITING;

EID: 0038637365     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.20.4.381     Document Type: Article

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