A vitamin profile of heroin addiction

A. el-Nakah, O. Frank, D.B. Louria, M.A. Quinones and H. Baker

American Journal of Public Health, 1979, vol. 69, issue 10, 1058-1060

Abstract: Circulating thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinates, folates, vitamin B12, B6, A, and carotenes of 149 heroin addicts aged 17-60 years were compared to 204 healthy subjects not using drugs or vitamins. Only 24% of the addicts had no evidence of hypovitaminemia; 45% and 37% had vitamin B6 and folate deficit respectively, whereas deficits of thiamine, vitamin B12, riboflavin, and nicotinate were recorded for 13-19% of the addict population; impaired liver function in addicts did not influence these results.

Date: 1979
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