Treatment or "high": Benzodiazepine use in patients on injectable heroin or oral opioids

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2477-2484

  Vogel, Marc ^a   Knöpfli, Bina ^a   Schmid, Otto ^a   Prica, Mari ^a   Strasser, Johannes ^a   Prieto, Luis ^b   Wiesbeck, Gerhard A ^a   Dürsteler MacFarland, Kenneth M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diacetylmorphine; Motive; Opioid dependence; Psychiatric comorbidity; Sedative

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; DIAMORPHINE; OPIATE AGONIST;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; TASTE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

DIACETYLMORPHINE; MOTIVE; OPIOID DEPENDENCE; PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY; SEDATIVE;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BENZODIAZEPINES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG MISUSE; SELF MEDICATION; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879375565     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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