Description
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.
