Methadone Maintenance Treatment and other Opioid Replacement Therapies
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Martin Dunitz
Published: December 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9789057022388
Subjects: Addiction & therapy; Pharmacology; Rehabilitation; Self-Help; Neurology - General; Medical / Nursing; Treatment; Psychopathology - Addiction; Methadone maintenance; Methadone; Opioid abuse; therapeutic use
First sentence: Opioid replacement therapy involves the administration of a long-acting opioid drug to an opioid dependent person, usually by a nonparenteral route of administration, for the therapeutic purposes of preventing or substantially reducing the injection of illicit opioids, such as heroin.