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 research literature on the value and relative efficacy of the various pharmacological approaches.

This includes pharmacotherapies used in the management of withdrawal from opioids such as clonidine, lofexidine, methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone and also symptomatic medications. It also includes different forms of maintenance therapy using opioid agonists such as methadone, LAAM, buprenorphine, slow-release oral morphine and diamorphine, and opioid antagonists such as naltrexone.

This text should appeal to researchers, to identify gaps in the research literature and provide a basis for determining appropriate research directions, to clinicians by providing clinical with clinical guidelines and information concerning the empirical basis for the treatments, and to policy makers in assisting them to make decisions about the various treatments from a public health perspective, taking into account the relative cost and effectiveness of the interventions.

About the Author
Richard P. Mattick, Robert Ali, Nicholas Lintzeris

Reviews

"This succinct, well-organized book covers the relevant issues clinicians may need to address in treating patients for opiate withdrawal. It can be very useful for all healthcare providers involved in the clinical treatment of this patient population."

Michael Easton, MD - Rush University Medical Center (Doody Review, August 09)

"What the present book usefully adds to its predecessors are clinical guidelines for the use of opioid pharmacotherapies and a discussion of the cost-effectiveness of opioid therapies, helping the reader to make some assessment of the relative inexpensiveness of these therapies compared to other interventions and treatments in other settings.

I can see this will be a valuable book for clinicians and researchers who need a quick but reassuringly balanced and informed entry into the now extensive research supporting opioid prescribing. Busy policymakers may also find much of use in the book, if they have the time and the open mind to read it."

John Witton - National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (Reviewed in Druscope's journal, Druglink July 09)

Book Information
ISBN 9781841844008
Author Richard P. Mattick
Format Paperback
Page Count 520
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 703g