Methoxetamine toxicity reported to the National Poisons Information Service: Clinical characteristics and patterns of enquiries (including the period of the introduction of the UK's first Temporary Class Drug Order)

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-47

  Hill, Simon L ^a,e   Harbon, Sian̂ C D ^b   Coulson, James ^b   Cooper, Gillian A ^b   Jackson, Gill ^c   Lupton, David J ^c   Vale, J Allister ^d   Thomas, Simon H L ^a,e  

^a Newcastle Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b National Poisons Information Service   (United Kingdom)

^c National Poisons Information Service   (United Kingdom)

^d National Poisons Information Service   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; ETIZOLAM; IBUPROFEN; METHOXETAMINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CATATONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSTONIA; EUPHORIA; HALLUCINATION; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MYDRIASIS; NYSTAGMUS; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; STUPOR; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; TETANY; TREMOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

DRUG ABUSE; MENTAL HEALTH, DRUG ABUSE; OVERDOSE; POISONING; TOXICOLOGY;

CYCLOHEXANONES; CYCLOHEXYLAMINES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; GREAT BRITAIN; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84891860180     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-202251     Document Type: Article

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