- ►annals.org [PDF] KA Sporer - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1999 - Am Coll Physicians Acute heroin overdose is a common daily experience in the urban and suburban
United States and accounts for many preventable deaths. Heroin acts as a
pro-drug that allows rapid and complete central nervous system absorption; ... Cited by 192 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►carmha.ca [PDF] S Darke, D Zador - Addiction, 1996 - ingentaconnect.com Abstract The current paper examines critically the literature on deaths
attributed to heroin overdose, and examines the characteristics and
circumstances of such deaths. In particular, the dominance of the widely ... Cited by 297 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
KA Sporer, J Firestone, SM Isaacs - Academic Emergency Medicine, 1996 - interscience.wiley.com Methods: A retrospective review was performed of presumed opioid overdoses that
were managed in 1993 by the emergency medical services (EMS) system in a
single-tiered, urban advanced life support (ALS) EMS system. Specifically. ... Cited by 68 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
JJ Osterwalder - Clinical Toxicology, 1996 - informahealthcare.com Naloxone, a pure, semisynthetic opioid antagonist, is today one of the standard
emergency medications, promptly alleviating coma and respiratory depression
caused by overdoses of heroin or other opioid agonists. The first published ... Cited by 76 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
KW MDCM, LB BSc, EMA II, IM EMA II, J … - Academic Emergency Medicine - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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M Warner-Smith, S Darke, M Lynskey, W Hall - Addiction, 2001 - ingentaconnect.com Introduction Over the past decade fatal opioid overdose has emerged as a ma j or
public health issue interna- tionally. The number of deaths attributed to opioid
overdose among Australian adults aged 15–44 years increased from 302 in ... Cited by 141 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
D Zador, S Sunjic, S Darke - Medical Journal of Australia, 1996 - mja.com.au Over the decade to 1990, mortality from opiate drugs increased by 170% while
that from other drugs declined by 8%. 1 There is little information available on
the circumstances or characteristics of Australian heroin-related deaths. ... Cited by 164 - Related articles - Cached - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►psi.org [PDF] J Strang, B Powis, D Best, L Vingoe, P … - Addiction, 1999 - ingentaconnect.com Introduction Opiate misuse is associated with substantial mor- bidity and
mortality from overdose (Davoli et al., ... 1993; Oppenheimer et al., 1994;
Darke, Ross & Hall, 1996; Farrell et al., 1996; Frischer et al., 1997), ... Cited by 92 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
S Darke, J Ross, W Hall - Addiction, 1996 - ingentaconnect.com Abstract A sample of 329 heroin users were interviewed regarding their personal
experience of non-fatal heroin overdose. Experience of overdose was widespread,
with two-thirds of subjects (68%) reporting having overdosed. The median ... Cited by 224 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
S Darke, J Ross, W Hall - Addiction, 1996 - ingentaconnect.com Abstract A sample of 329 heroin users were interviewed about their experiences
at other peoples' heroin overdoses. The overwhelming majority (86%) had
witnessed a heroin overdose, on a median of six occasions. Heroin users ... Cited by 93 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
