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 dramatic increase in the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis among
intravenous drug users.Methadone Treatment for Opioid Dependence examines various aspects of the most widely used medication for the treatment of opioid dependence. Used clinically for more than thirty years, methadone is the most common pharmacological treatment for opioid dependence. Some 115, 000 people are actively enrolled in methadone programs in the United States, and estimates…
This is a good book on current practice of methadone and other
opioid agonist therapy, but it is very cautious about innovations in treatment (or a return to the more effective Dole-Nyswander model)…
