Prescription opioid analgesics rapidly change the human brain
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Prescription of opioid analgesics and related harms in Australia.
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عنوان ژورنال: Pain
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0304-3959
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.03.028