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Withdrawal from heroin and methadone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Raymond Travers*
Affiliation:
Olive Mount Hospital Old Mill Lane Waver tree Liverpool L15 8LW
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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