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Article de Périodique
Relationship between nonmedical prescription-opioid use and heroin use (2016)
Auteur(s) :
COMPTON, W. M. ;
JONES, C. M. ;
BALDWIN, G. T.
Année
2016
Page(s) :
154-163
Sous-type de document :
Revue de la littérature / Literature review
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
66
Domaine :
Autres substances / Other substances ; Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
OPIOIDES
;
MEDICAMENTS
;
HEROINE
;
MESUSAGE
;
TRAJECTOIRE
;
TYPE D'USAGE
;
PHARMACOLOGIE
;
MORTALITE
;
PREVALENCE
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
Note générale :
Correspondence: Cicero T.J, Ellis M.S. Nonmedical prescription-opioid use and heroin use. New England Journal of Medicine, 2016; 374(13): p. 1295-1296.
Résumé :
A large fraction of heroin users now report that they formerly used prescription opioids nonmedically, a finding that has led to restrictions on opioid prescribing. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of prescription-opioid users move on to heroin use.
Affiliation :
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA