Pharmacotherapies for the treatment of opioid dependence
Subtitle: efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and implementation guidelines
By: edited by Richard P. Mattick, Robert Ali, Nicholas Lintzeris.
Contributors: Mattick, Richard P.; Ali, Robert.; Lintzeris, Nicholas.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781841844008
Subjects: Opioid abuse -- Chemotherapy; Opioid-Related Disorders -- drug therapy; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Treatment Outcome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Opioid dependence and management / Louisa Degenhardt, Richard P. Mattick, and Amy Gibson; title: Pharmacology of opioid agonists and antagonists / Andrea L. Gordon ... [et al.]; title: Services for heroin withdrawal : a review / Nicholas Lintzeris, Linda Gowing, and James Bell; title: Methadone maintenance treatment / Jeff Ward, Wayne Hall, and Richard P. Mattick; title: LAAM in the treatment of opioid dependence : a systematic review / Nicolas Clark, Alan Gijsbers, and Jason M. White; title: The place of buprenorphine in the management of opioid dependence / Richard P. Mattick, Courtney Breen, and Amy Gibson; title: Treating heroin dependence with diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) / Gabriele Bammer; title: Naltrexone maintenance treatment / Amy Gibson and Alison Ritter; title: Pharmacotherapies and pregnancy / Adrian Dunlop ... [et al.]; title: Politics, practice, and research into treatment of heroin addiction / James Bell; title: Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of methadone in the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence / Sue Henry-Edwards ... [et al.]; title: National clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of buprenorphine in the treatment of heroin dependence / Nicholas Lintzeris ... [et al.]; title: Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of naltrexone in the management of opioid dependence; title: James Bell ... [et al.]; title: Choosing treatments : the role of economics in informing future decisions / Marian Shanahan and Richard P Mattick.