Pharmacotherapies for the treatment of opioid dependence :
[Book]
efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and implementation guidelines /
edited by Richard P. Mattick, Robert Ali, Nicholas Lintzeris
New York :
Informa Healthcare,
c2009
xiii, 503 p. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Opioid dependence and management / Louisa Degenhardt, Richard P. Mattick, and Amy Gibson -- Pharmacology of opioid agonists and antagonists / Andrea L. Gordon ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- National clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of buprenorphine in the treatment of heroin dependence / Nicholas Lintzeris ... [et al.] -- Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of naltrexone in the management of opioid dependence -- James Bell ... [et al.] -- Choosing treatments : the role of economics in informing future decisions / Marian Shanahan and Richard P Mattick