Elevated urinary aluminium in current and past users of illicit heroin

Addiction Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-199

  Exley, Christopher ^a,d   Ahmed, Usman ^b   Polwart, Anthony ^c   Bloor, Roger N ^d  

^a Lennard Jones Laboratories   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^c Life Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Alzheimer's disease; Chasing the Dragon; Heroin abuse; Toxic leukoencephalopathy; Urine

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CREATININE; DIAMORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG; IRON;

ADULT; ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; ALUMINUM URINE LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BODY BURDEN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; ALUMINUM; BODY BURDEN; CREATININE; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 34248577444     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2007.00055.x     Document Type: Article

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