{"pk":16814,"title":"Bottoms Up: Methamphetamine Toxicity from an Unusual Route","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Methamphetamine (MA) use is becoming commonplace, and emergency physicians (EPs) are seeing patients with abuse-associated complications. Previous reports have described inhalational and intravenous routes. We present the second case of rectal MA abuse in the literature. Trans-rectal use is important for EPs to consider because ongoing absorption of massive quantities may be averted upon detection. Additionally, trans-rectal abuse risks anorectal trauma and vascular necrosis with colonic perforation.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2009;10:58-60.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"http://google.com"},"keywords":[{"word":"methamphetamine"},{"word":"Drug Abuse"},{"word":"transrectal Use"},{"word":"drug toxicity"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03z4s3rp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Malkeet","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gupta","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Scott","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bailey","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Illinois","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Luis","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Lovato","name_suffix":"","institution":"Olive View-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Sylmar, California","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-07-17T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-07-17T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2009-01-27T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16814/galley/8516/download/"}]}