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Prescription Opioid Abuse in the Emergency Department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Barth L. Wilsey ,
Scott M. Fishman  and
Christine Ogden
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , Winter 2005 , pp. 770 - 782
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