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Trauma and Substance Abuse: Deadly Consequences of Intravenous Percocet Tablets
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012The prevalence of drug or alcohol addiction among trauma patients approaches 40%, yet many require narcotics during admission for adequate pain control. Provider awareness is the most reasonable option to avoid the devastating consequence of narcotic tablet injection.To illustrate the misuse of oral narcotics and to heighten provider awareness of a ...
Joseph M, Galante +3 more
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Pulmonary Foreign Body Embolism and Granulomatosis in Intravenous Substance Abuse
Academic Forensic Pathology, 2013Prescription drug abuse has increased in the United States in part because of the relative ease of acquisition. Some drug abusers resort to the injection of crushed tablets for rapid onset and increased euphoria. Adolescents and young adults with chronic pain disorders and intravenous access ports are particularly susceptible to this practice ...
David K. Arboe, Joseph F. Tomashefski
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Clinical Neuropharmacology, 2018
AbstractThe aim of this study was to test efficacy and safety of intravenous (IV) valproate for aggression in children and adolescents with mood or conduct disorder and concomitant substance abuse. Six patients received a 20 mg/kg dose of IV valproic acid as an add-on therapy to their standard therapy with second-generation antipsychotics and ...
Battaglia C. +4 more
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AbstractThe aim of this study was to test efficacy and safety of intravenous (IV) valproate for aggression in children and adolescents with mood or conduct disorder and concomitant substance abuse. Six patients received a 20 mg/kg dose of IV valproic acid as an add-on therapy to their standard therapy with second-generation antipsychotics and ...
Battaglia C. +4 more
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Invited Review: The Substance Abuser and Home Intravenous Therapy: Above All Else, Do No Harm
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 1992Home care therapy is being challenged by changes in patient populations and technologic advances. The selection of appropriate candidates for home intravenous therapy is a critical issue faced by health care professionals. This process is more complex when the patient has a history of intravenous drug abuse.
Elizabeth A. Krzywda +2 more
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Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 2017
We describe the case of a 23-year-old white female, 10-12 weeks pregnant, with a history of intravenous drug use and a recently diagnosed pneumonia, who was found deceased in her bed after a night of sleep. Although postmortem serum toxicology tested positive for alprazolam, tetrahydrocannabinol, and morphine, the ultimate cause of death was determined
Brandy Shattuck, John Livingstone
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We describe the case of a 23-year-old white female, 10-12 weeks pregnant, with a history of intravenous drug use and a recently diagnosed pneumonia, who was found deceased in her bed after a night of sleep. Although postmortem serum toxicology tested positive for alprazolam, tetrahydrocannabinol, and morphine, the ultimate cause of death was determined
Brandy Shattuck, John Livingstone
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Intravenous Substance Abuse and a Presacral Mass
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1990To the Editor.— Intravenous drug abuse in the United States is a pervasive societal problem with a significant risk of infectious complications. In a large series of drug abusers with medical problems, infections were implicated in 27% of the admissions. 1 We report an unusual infectious complication of parenteral drug use.
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Blood, 2004
Abstract Aluminum toxicity first came to attention in the medical literature as a sequela of peritoneal or hemodialysis, where accumulation of aluminum in body tissues results from the use of aluminum-containing dialysate and phosphate binders.
Gayatri M. Sreenivasan +2 more
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Abstract Aluminum toxicity first came to attention in the medical literature as a sequela of peritoneal or hemodialysis, where accumulation of aluminum in body tissues results from the use of aluminum-containing dialysate and phosphate binders.
Gayatri M. Sreenivasan +2 more
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Group A ß-Hemolytic Streptococcal Bacteremia and Intravenous Substance Abuse
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1990• Over an 18-month period, the incidence of group A β-hemolytic streptococcal bacteremia rose from an average of 2.5 per 10 000 patient discharges to 17.9. A retrospective analysis was performed comparing patients with group A β-hemolytic streptococcal bacteremia during this 18-month period with those who presented over the preceding 36 months. Most of
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[On forensic medical diagnosis and statistical recording of intravenous substance abuse].
Sudebno-meditsinskaia ekspertiza, 2009An increasingly higher mortality rate due to diseases related to injection drug use is reported in the literature. However, the relevant diagnostic criteria and ICD-10 coding methods are incompletely explicated in the current publications, the proposed approaches are contradictory, and their practical application encounters difficulties.
A P, Shval'b, N A, Tiazhlov
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The substance abuser and home intravenous therapy: above all else, do no harm.
Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 1993Home care therapy is being challenged by changes in patient populations and technologic advances. The selection of appropriate candidates for home intravenous therapy is a critical issue faced by health care professionals. This process is more complex when the patient has a history of intravenous drug abuse.
E A, Krzywda, D A, Andris, R K, Ausman
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