Out with the old, in with the new? Case reports of the clinical features and acute management of two novel designer drugs

Acute Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 157-160

  Hamilton, E J ^a   Misselbrook, G P ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 MeO 2 oxo PCE; 4 MeO PCP; Designer drugs; Methoxetamine; Phencyclidine

Indexed keywords

DESIGNER DRUG; METHOXETAMINE; METHOXYDINE; PHENCYCLIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NYSTAGMUS; PATIENT MONITORING;

ADULT; CYCLOHEXANONES; CYCLOHEXYLAMINES; DESIGNER DRUGS; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PHENCYCLIDINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866752275     PISSN: 17474884     EISSN: 17474892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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