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- Title
An Outbreak of Designer Drug--Related Deaths in Pennsylvania.
- Authors
Hibbs, Jonathan; Perper, Joshua; Winek, Charles L.
- Abstract
Documents the contribution of 3-methylfentanyl, a designer opiate, to overdose mortality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and its use with other illegal drugs. Number of deaths caused by the overdose of the opiate; Risk posed by drug abusers in the northeastern U.S.; Name used in reference to potent heroin preparations.
- Subjects
ALLEGHENY County (Pa.); PITTSBURGH (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States; NARCOTICS -- Overdose; DRUG abuse; DRUG overdose; CENTRAL nervous system depressants
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991, Vol 265, Issue 8, p1011
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1991.03460080081037