Opioids and Sickle Cell Disease: From Opium to the Opioid Epidemic

Opioids and Sickle Cell Disease: From Opium to the Opioid Epidemic

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder of hemoglobin structure. The clinical effects of the sickle gene are pleiotropic in nature causing multiple phenotypic expressions associated with the various complications of the disease. The hallmark of the disease is pain that could be acute, chr...

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Main Author:	Samir K. Ballas
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-01-01
Series:	Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:	sickle cell disease opium opioids epidemic mortality pandemic
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/10/3/438

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