Illicit opioid use in the 21st century: Witnessing a paradigm shift?

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-501

  Fischer, Benedikt ^a,b   Rehm, Jurgen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; DIAMORPHINE; HYDROMORPHONE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE;

DRUG ABUSE; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; PHARMACY; PHYSICIAN; UNITED STATES;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HEROIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 33947098490     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01738.x     Document Type: Editorial

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