Open access emergency medicine : OAEM

When good times go bad: managing 'legal high' complications in the emergency department.

Open access emergency medicine : OAEM December 20, 2017 Charles R Caffrey, Patrick M Lank

Patients can use numerous drugs that exist outside of existing regulatory statutes in order to get "legal highs." Legal psychoactive substances represent a challenge to the emergency medicine physician due to the sheer number of available agents, their multiple toxidromes and presentations, their escaping traditional methods of analysis, and the reluctance of patients to divulge their use of...