Pharmacokinetics of high doses of intramuscular and oral heroin in narcotic addicts

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 341-352

  Girardin, François ^b   Rentsch, Katharina M ^b   Schwab, Marc André ^b   Maggiorini, Marco ^b   Pauli Magnus, Christiane ^b   Kullak Ublick, Gerd A ^b   Meier, Peter J ^b   Fattinger, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; DEUTERIUM; DIAMORPHINE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE 3 GLUCURONIDE; MORPHINE 6 GLUCURONIDE; MORPHINE ACETATE; MORPHINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; FEMALE; HALF-LIFE; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; NARCOTICS;

EID: 0141818210     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9236(03)00199-1     Document Type: Article

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