Artigo Revisado por pares

Heroin "Overdose" Death: Contribution of Drug-Associated Environmental Cues

1982; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 216; Issue: 4544 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.7200260

ISSN

1095-9203

Autores

Shepard Siegel, Riley E. Hinson, Marvin D. Krank, Jane McCully,

Tópico(s)

Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

Resumo

A model of "overdose" deaths among heroin addicts is proposed which emphasizes recent findings concerning the contribution of drug-associated environmental cues to drug tolerance. Results of animal experiments performed to evaluate this model suggest that conditioned drug-anticipatory responses, in addition to pharmacological factors, affect heroin-induced mortality.

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