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Deaths Whilst on Pharmaceutical Heroin

First published: 13 March 2019 | Last updated: 28 March 2019

Ms Basak Tas

Basak Tasis a final year PhD student at the National Addiction Centre. Her work focuses on improving understanding of opioid overdose.

 

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Basak Tas

Post-doctoral researcher


I’m a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College London. I have recently been focussing on investigating overdose and respiratory depression among heroin users who are in diamorphine maintenance treatment and therefore receive pharmaceutical diamorphine and preparing a portable version of the respiratory monitoring equipment. I have also developed a separate line of research on injecting motion signatures with colleagues within KCL addiction department.

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