@misc{1928403797eb47dd9ca4d8ce59d7a165,
title = "Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS):: Description, strengths and knowledge gaps.",
abstract = "Standardised tools are important for safely monitoring psychoactive drug use withdrawal. As part of the development of an online collection of commonly used AOD withdrawal tools, a desktop review of the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) was conducted to ascertain appropriate populations, diagnostics, utility, resources and knowledge gaps. This overview is the result of that review.",
keywords = "withdrawal symptoms, drug and alcohol use, review, COWS, Opiate dependence",
author = "Jane Fischer and Ann Roche and Vinita Duraisingam",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
day = "30",
language = "English",
series = "AOD Screening & Withdrawal Tools Collection",
publisher = "National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University.",
type = "Other",
}