Polydrug opioid abuse & mechanisms of tolerance to opioid respiratory depression

The primary cause of fatality in an opioid overdose is opioid induced respiratory depression. In addition to using opioids, polydrug use is common within the opioid using population, with ethanol being the most common additional drug of abuse, though another emerging class of co-abused drugs is the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Rob
Other Authors: Kelly, Eamonn ; Henderson, Graeme
Published: University of Bristol 2019
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767957