Severity of Post-traumatic Stress and Non-medical, Concomitant Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use in a Sample of Women at High Risk of Overdose.
Women who exchange sex and use opioids experience substantial post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Among veterans, PTSD increases the risk of concomitant opioid-benzodiazepine use, increasing overdose risk, but this relationship is underexplored in other at-risk populations. We examined c...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 1292 - 1308 |
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