Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Jun 2010
Morbidity associated with heroin overdose presentations to an emergency department: a 10-year record linkage study.
To examine hospitalizations in a cohort of 224 patients who presented with non-fatal heroin overdose to an ED. ⋯ Non-fatal heroin overdose ED presentations are associated with a cluster of hospitalizations around that episode, likely to be related to heroin availability. Presentation to hospital by heroin users represents an opportunity to counsel less risky behaviour.