Comparison of crystalline methamphetamine ("ice") users and other patients with toxicology-related problems presenting to a hospital emergency department

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 564-566

  Bunting, Philippa J ^a,b   Fulde, Gordian W O ^a,b   Forster, S Lesley ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; STREET DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG ABUSE; EMERGENCY CARE; FAMILY; FRIEND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POLICE; PSYCHOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIOLENCE; ADULT; AGE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 38449093300     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01417.x     Document Type: Article

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