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Morbidity associated with non‐fatal heroin overdose
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Aims To estimate the range and severity of heroin overdose related morbidity. Design Cross‐sectional survey. Setting Sydney, Australia. Participants 198 heroin users. Findings Sixty‐nine per cent had experienced a heroin overdose, 28% in the preceding 12 months. Of those who had overdosed, 79% had experienced at least one overdose‐related morbidity symptom. An ambulance had attended overdoses for 59% of subjects, 33% had required hospital treatment for overdose, and 14% had experienced overdose‐related complications of sufficient severity to be admitted to a hospital ward. Indirect overdose‐related morbidity included: physical injury sustained when falling at overdose (40%), burns (24%) and assault while unconscious (14%). Direct overdose‐related morbidity included: peripheral neuropathy (49%), vomiting (33%), temporary paralysis of limbs (26%), chest infections (13%) and seizure (2%). Conclusions There appears to be extensive morbidity associated with non‐fatal overdose. This is clearly an area that requires more research to document the prevalence and nature of these harms, and factors associated with them.
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- Authors
- Warner‐Smith, M., Darke, S., & Day, C.
- Venue
- Addiction
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-07-28
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 963-967
- ISSN
- 0965-2140 (ISSN-L)
- 1360-0443
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- W1966120164
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- 208
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 9.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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