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 Emergency MedicineVolume 13 Issue 3, Pages 359 - 363 Published Online: 21 Dec 2001 © 2004 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine.
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 168K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Acute opioid withdrawal in the emergency department: Inadvertent naltrexone abuse? Copyright Blackwell Science Pty Ltd KEYWORDS heroin • naltrexone • opioid • opioid withdrawal ABSTRACTFrom July 1999 it became evident that a rising number of heroin users were presenting to the Dandenong Hospital Emergency Department with a rapid onset, florid opioid withdrawal syndrome following the intravenous injection of what they had believed to be heroin. We suspect that the injected substance was in fact naltrexone. This paper describes two such cases and reviews the literature on naltrexone. Recommendations regarding the management of the acute opioid withdrawal syndrome are made. Accepted: 15 January 2001; |  |
