Unintentional rapid opioid detoxification: Case report

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-67

  Singh, Shubh Mohan ^a   Sharma, Balkishan ^a  

^a GIAN SAGAR MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Addiction; Detoxification; Emergency; Naltrexone; Opioid

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONIDINE; CODEINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIAZEPAM; DIPHENOXYLATE; LORAZEPAM; NALTREXONE; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLD SWEAT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; LOOSE FECES; MALE; OPIATE ADDICTION; REFLEX; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TONIC SEIZURE; URINALYSIS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; YAWNING;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAZEPAM; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NARCOTICS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PRIVATE PRACTICE; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 63649142214     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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