Oxycodone poisoning: Not just the 'usual suspects'

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1035-1036

  Darke, Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Overdose; Oxycodone; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OXYCODONE;

ADULT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; OXYCODONE;

EID: 79955883103     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03395.x     Document Type: Editorial

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