Six decades of natural opiate use in a nonagenarian

Elderly natural opiate users are often forced to seek treatment when they cannot avail opioids. We present here a case of a 98-year-old male who came to us with six decades of natural opiate use in the form of raw opium and poppy husk. The patient was managed symptomatically with tramadol and diazep...

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Main Authors: Saumya Mishra, Siddharth Sarkar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Geriatric Mental Health
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Online Access:http://www.jgmh.org/article.asp?issn=2348-9995;year=2020;volume=7;issue=2;spage=111;epage=112;aulast=Mishra