A clinical study of an epidemic of heroin intoxication and heroin-induced pulmonary edema

Am J Med. 1971 Dec;51(6):704-14. doi: 10.1016/0002-9343(71)90298-1.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology
  • Black or African American
  • Body Temperature
  • Coma
  • Drug Combinations
  • Ethnicity
  • Female
  • Heroin / administration & dosage
  • Heroin / poisoning*
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia / complications
  • Male
  • Nalorphine / therapeutic use
  • New York City
  • Pneumonia / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia / etiology
  • Puerto Rico
  • Pulmonary Edema / etiology*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Substance-Related Disorders / complications*
  • Substance-Related Disorders / diagnosis
  • Substance-Related Disorders / drug therapy
  • Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology
  • Substance-Related Disorders / mortality
  • Substance-Related Disorders / physiopathology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Drug Combinations
  • Heroin
  • Nalorphine