| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 503 pages) |
| Contents |
Opioid dependence and management / Louisa Degenhardt, Richard P. Mattick, and Amy Gibson -- Pharmacology of opioid agonists and antagonists / Andrea L. Gordon [and others] -- Services for heroin withdrawal : a review / Nicholas Lintzeris, Linda Gowing, and James Bell -- Methadone maintenance treatment / Jeff Ward, Wayne Hall, and Richard P. Mattick -- LAAM in the treatment of opioid dependence : a systematic review / Nicolas Clark, Alan Gijsbers, and Jason M. White -- The place of buprenorphine in the management of opioid dependence / Richard P. Mattick, Courtney Breen, and Amy Gibson -- Treating heroin dependence with diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) / Gabriele Bammer -- Naltrexone maintenance treatment / Amy Gibson and Alison Ritter -- Pharmacotherapies and pregnancy / Adrian Dunlop [and others] -- Politics, practice, and research into treatment of heroin addiction / James Bell -- Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of methadone in the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence / Sue Henry-Edwards [and others] -- National clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of buprenorphine in the treatment of heroin dependence / Nicholas Lintzeris [and others] -- Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of naltrexone in the management of opioid dependence -- James Bell [and others] -- Choosing treatments : the role of economics in informing future decisions / Marian Shanahan and Richard P Mattick |
| Summary |
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 presents: · detailed information on the cost-effectiveness of the various types of opioid treatment · the range of pharmacotherapies used for the management of opioid dependence · the state of knowledge from the international res |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Opioid abuse -- Chemotherapy
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Opioid abuse -- Treatment
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Opioid abuse -- Treatment -- Cost effectiveness
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Cost effectiveness.
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Outcome assessment (Medical care)
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Opioid-Related Disorders -- drug therapy
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Outcome Assessment, Health Care
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Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Treatment Outcome
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cost benefit analysis.
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SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictions -- Drug Dependence.
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Outcome assessment (Medical care)
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Cost effectiveness
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Opioid abuse -- Chemotherapy
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Opioid abuse -- Treatment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mattick, Richard P. (Richard Phillip)
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Ali, Robert.
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Lintzeris, Nicholas.
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| ISBN |
9780203414088 |
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020341408X |
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