Opiates statistics

Heroin has a special place among the opiates, as most of our practical knowledge of drug dependence has come from experience with this drug. The behavior of heroin addicts attracts more attention than that of other drug users and is more likely to lead to crime and to committal for therapy. In most statistics, heroin users feature disproportionately in comparison to users of cannabis or benzodiazepines. Heroin users are in most cases polytoxicomanes, also using substances such as cannabis, codeine, cocaine, benzo-diazepines... 

Combined morphine/naltrexone capsules have shown comparable analgesia, adverse effects and bioequivalence to a similar morphine sulfate extended-release capsule product (Kadian ) with regard to rate and extent of plasma morphine absorption [8]. In the clinical efficacy trial in patients with pain due to osteoarthritis, change in the weekly BPI average pain score was statistically significantly superior for those treated with Embeda as compared to placebo. A review of the Subjective Opiate Withdrawal Scales (SOWS)... 

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