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Novel Apparatus and Method for Drug Reinforcement
Published on: August 20, 2010
[Droghe d'abuso e rene]
Giuliano Boscutti1, Vittorio Di Maso2, Alessandra Marega1
1Struttura Operativa Complessa di Nefrologia, Dialisi e Trapianto Renale Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale (ASUFC), Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia di Udine, Udine, Italy.
Abstract:
Here we present a case of acute renal failure needing dialysis in a heroin addict patient chronically treated with Metadone. This give us the opportunity to review the renal effects of the main drugs of abuse, highlighting the shift occured from the four "old sisters" (Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin and Amphetamine) to the news synthetic drugs (chiefly Synthetic Cathinones and Cannabinoids), that poses problems due to large diffusion, easy procurement, legal non-regulation and difficult analytical identification, raising medical and forensic questions. From a Nephrological point of view is essential to take great care over the need to diagnose this kind of pathology and to widen the search trying anyway to recognize the substances potentially involved.
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