Methadone Maintenance Treatment and other Opioid Replacement Therapies
Contributors: Jeff Ward (Editor, Author); Richard P. Mattick (Editor, Author); Wayne Hall (Editor, Author)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: December 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9789057022395
Subjects: Addiction & therapy; Pharmacology; Rehabilitation; Medical; Self-Help; Substance Abuse & Addictions - Drug Dependence; Medical / Psychiatry; Laboratory Medicine
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.