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MD Stein - Journal of general internal medicine, 1990 - Springer INTRAVENOUS DRUG USERS (IVDUs) have entered public discourse as one of the groups
most at risk for contract- ing and transmitting AIDS. The medical community has long experience
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J Neugarten, GR Gallo, J Buxbaum, LA Katz, J … - The American journal of …, 1986 - Elsevier Systemic amyloidosis has recently emerged as a major cause of nephropathy among heroin
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R Dettmeyer, B Wessling, B Madea - Forensic science international, 1998 - Elsevier Renal specimens were obtained from 179 autopsies of persons autopsied in the Institute of Forensic
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RB Dettmeyer, J Preuß, H Wollersen, B Madea - eds, 2005 - informahealthcare.com Since the first reports in the late 1960s and early 1970s there have been numerous studies describing
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WR Lange, DR Jasinski - Advances in alcohol & substance abuse, 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The incidence of abuse of pentazocine and tripelennamine (T's and Blues) suggests that the
mixture has greater abuse potential than does either agent alone. Pentazocine (40 and 80
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