Drug points: Urinary retention with misuse of "ecstasy"
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Pathology of deaths associated with "ecstasy" and "eve" misuse.
AIMS To study the postmortem pathology associated with ring substituted amphetamine (amphetamine derivatives) misuse. METHODS The postmortem findings in deaths associated with the ring substituted amphetamines 3,4-methylenedioxymethyl-amphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) and 3,4-methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA, eve) were studied in seven young white men aged between 20 and 25 years. RESULTS Str...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6978.504a