Are empty methadone bottles empty? An analytic study
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Are empty methadone bottles empty? An analytic study
BACKGROUND Methadone maintenance treatment is the most widely prescribed treatment for opiate dependence with proven benefits for patients. In naïve users or in case of recreational misuse, methadone can be a source of potentially lethal intoxications, resulting in fatal overdoses. A few cases of infantile intoxications have been described in the literature, some of which resulted in death. Now...
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عنوان ژورنال: Harm Reduction Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1477-7517
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-11-20