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MeSH Heading: Substance Abuse, Intravenous
Tree Number(s): C25.775.793; F03.900.793
Unique ID: D015819
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015819
Annotation: IM + specific drug or substance IM (without qualif); for "abuse, overuse or misuse"
Scope Note: Abuse, overuse, or misuse of a substance by its injection into a vein.
Entry Term(s): Drug Abuse, Intravenous; Drug Abuse, Parenteral; Intravenous Drug Abuse
Previous Indexing: Injections, Intravenous (1966-1989); Substance Abuse (1966-1989)
See Also: Needle Sharing; Needle-Exchange Programs
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/06/20
Revision Date: 2019/05/24

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

virology (VI)

Substance Abuse, Intravenous MeSH Descriptor Data 2025