Methadone Maintenance Treatment

Author : World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse,World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241547543

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Guidelines for the Psychosocially Assisted Pharmacological Treatment of Opioid Dependence by World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse,World Health Organization Pdf

"These guidelines were produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) a Guidelines Development Group of technical experts, and in consultation with the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) secretariat and other WHO departments. WHO also wishes to acknowledge the financial contribution of UNODC and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to this project. " - p. iv

Author : Committee on Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309598620

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Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment by Committee on Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment,Institute of Medicine Pdf

For nearly three decades, methadone hydrochloride has been the primary means of treating opiate addiction. Today, about 115,000 people receive such treatment, and thousands more have benefited from it in the past. Even though methadone's effectiveness has been well established, its use remains controversial, a fact reflected by the extensive regulation of its manufacturing, labeling, distribution, and use. The Food and Drug Administration regulates the safety and effectiveness of methadone, as it does for all drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration regulates it as a controlled substance. However, methadone is also subjected to a unique additional tier of regulation that prescribes how and under what circumstances it may be used to treat opiate addiction. Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment examines current Department of Health and Human Services standards for narcotic addiction treatment and the regulation of methadone treatment programs pursuant to those standards. The book includes an evaluation of the effect of federal regulations on the provision of methadone treatment services and an exploration of options for modifying the regulations to allow optimal clinical practice. The volume also includes an assessment of alternatives to the existing regulations.

Author : Pearl Isaac,Anne Kalvik,Eva Janecek,Maria Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Buprenorphine
ISBN : 177114243X

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Opioid Agonist Maintenance Treatment by Pearl Isaac,Anne Kalvik,Eva Janecek,Maria Zhang Pdf

"This book provides pharmacists with an overview of pharmacological therapies for opioid use disorders and information about related issues pertaining to pharmacy practice. Its main focus is to provide information on evidence-based treatment of opioid dependence using opioid agonists--methadone and buprenorphine--while acknowledging the importance of behavioural interventions such as psychosocial counselling."--

Author : Peter Selby,Meldon Kahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Methadone maintenance
ISBN : 0888687249

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Methadone Maintenance by Peter Selby,Meldon Kahan Pdf

This revised edition of Methadone Maintenance: A Physician's Guide to Treatment is substantially updated and is consistent with the 2001 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Methadone Maintenance Guidelines. This book provides guidance on methadone prescribing and dispensing, and includes essential information on topics such as: methadone dose tapering drug interactions involving methadone using methadone in opioid withdrawal management managing pain in methadone-maintained patients managing pregnancy in women in MMT.

Author : Ricardo A. Cruciani,Helena Knotkova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461469742

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Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy by Ricardo A. Cruciani,Helena Knotkova Pdf

Methadone and buprenorphine are the only two opioids that are indicated for the management of both pain and opioid-related drug addiction. Both present unique challenges to the general practitioner and pain specialist, requiring a separate analysis from the rest of the drugs in the same family. Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy is an invaluable guide to the safe use of these opioids. Authored by clinical and academic leaders from a variety of settings and backgrounds, this book includes chapters on pharmacology, adverse effects, safe rotation from other opioids, cardiac toxicity, prescribing, pharmacokinetics, equianalgesic dose and replacement therapy. This comprehensive text provides clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and academicians a resource for all the relevant points in methadone prescribing and buprenorphine therapy.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309486484

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Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Pdf

The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.

Author : Eric C. Strain,Maxine L. Stitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015048931979

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Methadone Treatment for Opioid Dependence by Eric C. Strain,Maxine L. Stitzer Pdf

Throughout the world, hundreds of thousands of people are addicted to opiates. The human, economic, and societal costs of this addiction are staggering: more than one-quarter of prison inmates are incarcerated for drug offenses and there has been a dramat.

Author : John C. Ball,Alan Ross
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461390893

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The Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment by John C. Ball,Alan Ross Pdf

Legislators, journalists and concerned citizens in general, when consider ing what to do about the plague of heroin addiction in large cities, ask an obvious question: "Is methadone treatment effective?" This question is a critical one since maintenance with methadone is at present the only prac tical alternative to leaving tens of thousands (in New York City, hundreds of thousands) of untreated addicts on the streets. Other treatments, although effective for limited groups, could not conceivably be expanded to stop heroin use in as much as 10% of the addicted population. The present study, sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, was undertaken to provide an authoritative answer to this question. Under the direction of a distinguished expert, the evaluation team made an inten sive examination of techniques and outcomes in six different methadone programs located in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and followed this by two yhears of data analysis and literature review. The present re port is the product of this work. The primary conclusion-namely that methadone treatment is substan tially effective in reducing heroin use and associated criminal behavior-is consistent with the findings of several previous independent evaluations.

Author : Pearl Isaac,Beth Sproule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1770523022

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Methadone Maintenance Treatment by Pearl Isaac,Beth Sproule Pdf

The problem of opioid addiction is growing in Ontario, primarily associated with the use of pharmaceutical products rather than heroin. For many Ontarians struggling with opioid dependence, methadone maintenance is an effective treatment that could save their lives. However, methadone has a unique pharmacological profile that requires specialized knowledge and procedures to ensure its safe use. Pharmacists are at the front line of ensuring clients' safe and effective use of methadone. This guide complements CAMH's comprehensive best-practice manual for pharmacists, Methadone Maintenance: A Pharmacist's Guide to Treatment, a required resource for all pharmacies dispensing methadone in Ontario. This new book addresses issues beyond best practice by the individual pharmacist, making a series of recommendations related to interprofessional collaboration, the pharmacy environment, education programs, accessibility of services and research needs. As the most accessible member of the treatment team, pharmacists are uniquely positioned to make a difference in the care of MMT clients. This book envisions ways in which professional organizations, educators, policy makers and researchers, among others, may support individual pharmacists working in a variety of practice settings in enhancing the care they provide through MMT pharmacy services.

Author : Rebecca Janes Lmhc Ladc
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781432750749

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Methadone by Rebecca Janes Lmhc Ladc Pdf

Arent they just getting high at taxpayers expense? Does it really ?Çÿeat your bones? Do they have to stay on that stuff forever? I thought Suboxone meant we wouldnt need methadone anymore. Learn the truth behind the Zombie effect Methadone is one tool in our fight against opiate dependency. As with any tool, it can be used, or it can be abused. We need every tool that we can get. Methadone is not the liquid handcuffs - the addiction is the handcuffs. Methadone can be the key to freedom from those handcuffs if it is used effectively. Addiction cant be contained by jail, and it wont be ignored. It will continue to pull down our culture until we acknowledge its power, and grapple with it in effective and realistic ways.

Author : S. Fraser,K. Valentine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230582569

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Substance and Substitution by S. Fraser,K. Valentine Pdf

Located between three powerful phenomena, public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers. This book aims to examine the controversial approach to addiction, providing in the process a unique approach to literature on illicit drugs

Author : Mark Erdelyan,Colleen Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drug addiction
ISBN : 0888688229

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Methadone Maintenance Treatment by Mark Erdelyan,Colleen Young Pdf

Author : Mark Erdelyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0888688202

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Methadone Maintenance Treatment by Mark Erdelyan Pdf

Methadone Maintenance Treatment: A Community Planning Guide is a manual offering guidance to communities on how to raise awareness of the benefits of methadone maintenance treatment and how to develop and integrate effective treatment services in their community. The manual reviews the stages of establishing a community working group, engaging the community, and planning, implementing and evaluating a MMT program. The resource provides practical suggestions on how to build public support and increase acceptance of those struggling with opioid dependence, through raising community awareness and acceptance of MMT services. The resource includes the following sections: - About Methadone Maintenance Treatment - Getting Ready - Establishing a Community Working Group - Engaging the Community - Developing a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program - Implementing the Program - Evaluating the Program - Resources This manual is for members of health planning networks and community working groups that are interested in developing or expanding MMT services to meet the needs of opioid dependent individuals.

Author : Camh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0888686994

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Methadone Maintenance Treatment by Camh Pdf

Written in plain language, Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Client Handbook gives clients an overview of methadone maintenance treatment. There is valuable information here for those thinking about methadone treatment, for the new client and the long-term client, and for families and friends. This handbook sets the record straight on length of treatment, side-effects, other drugs, counselling, pregnancy, travel, withdrawal and ending treatment-all the information a client needs, in one place.

Author : Jeff Ward,Richard P. Mattick,Wayne Hall
Publisher : Harwood Academic Pub
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 9057022389

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Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Other Opioid Replacement Therapies by Jeff Ward,Richard P. Mattick,Wayne Hall Pdf

The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem. While most of these programs use methadone as a substitute drug of choice, most recently, buprenorphine, LAAM (levo acetyl methadol), and heroin have been employed for this purpose. A comprehensive guide to the use of drug substitution in the treatment of opiate dependence, this handbook provides an up-to-date account of treatment research and practice in this growing area. As well as answering questions about the status of this class of interventions in terms of their demonstrated effectiveness, it also includes detailed discussions of assessment issues, appropriate dosage regimes, the role of ancillary social and psychosocial services, the use of opiate replacement therapy in prisons, optimal treatment during pregnancy, and the cost-effectiveness of this form of treatment. This book will be of int