Pharmacotherapies for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (eBook, PDF)

Efficacy, Cost-Effectiveness and Implementation Guidelines
Redaktion: Mattick, Richard P.; Lintzeris, Nicholas; Ali, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The most comprehensive text of its kind, this book addresses both the management of opioid withdrawal and opioid maintenance therapy, and combines up-to-date reviews of the scientific literature with evidence-based clinical guidelines for all of the relevant pharmacotherapies. A unique work, Pharmacotherapies for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780203414088
• Artikelnr.: 42564475

Autorenporträt

Richard P. Mattick, Robert Ali, Nicholas Lintzeris

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. Opioid dependence and management 2. Pharmacology of
opioid agonists and antagonists Part II: Outcomes for Withdrawal 3.
Services for heroin withdrawal: A review Part III: Outcomes for Maintenance
Treatment 4. Methadone maintenance treatment 5. LAAM in the treatment of
opioid dependence: A systematic review 6. The place of buprenorphine in the
management of opioid dependence 7. Treating heroin dependence with
diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) 8. Naltrexone maintenance treatment
Part IV: Outcomes from the National Evaluation of Pharmacotherapies for
Opioid Dependence (NEPOD) Project 9. Pharmacotherapies and pregnancy 10.
Politics, practice, and research into treatment of heroin addiction 11.
Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of methadone in the
maintenance treatment of opioid dependence 12. National clinical guidelines
and procedures for the use of buprenorphine in the treatment of heroin
dependence 13. Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of naltrexone
in the management of opioid dependence 14. Choosing treatments: The role of
economics in informing future decisions