Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy (Softcover)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

· An essential guide to the safe use of methadone and buprenorphine
· Comprehensive resource for clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and academicians
· Written by clinical and academic leaders from a variety of settings and backgrounds

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.

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Related subjects » Anesthesiology - Internal Medicine - Medicine - Neurology - Oncology & Hematology - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreward
Russell K. Portenoy MD

Preface
Ricardo A. Cruciani, MD, PhD & Helena Knotkova, PhD

1. Prescribing Methadone Safely
Eliezer Soto MD, Joy Hao MD, PhD, Helena Knotkova PhD, Ricardo A. Cruciani MD, PhD

1. Use of Methadone in Opioid Maintenance Treatment
Dr. Randy M. Seewald, MBBS

1. Treating Pain in Patients Receiving Methadone Maintenance for Opioid Dependence
Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, Declan T. Barry, PhD, & David A. Fiellin, MD

1. Methadone Side Effects: Constipation, Respiratory Depression, Sedation, Sleep-Disordered Breathing, and the Endocrine System
Lynn R. Webster, MD

1. Cardiovascular Effects of Methadone
Miguel A. Leal, MD & Craig T. January, MD, PhD

1. Methadone Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics
Gavin Bart, MD & Sharon L. Walsh PhD

1. Methadone and opioid rotation
Helena Knotkova PhD, Ricardo A. Cruciani,MD, PhD, Perry G. Fine MD

1. Intravenous use of Methadone: efficacy and safety
Sebastiano Mercadante, MD

1. Methadone Hyperalgesia
Peggy Compton, RN, PhD, FAAN

1. Buprenorphine Analgesia in Chronic Pain
Guy Hans, MD, PhD

1. Buprenorphine in Maintenance Therapy
Karran A. Phillips, MD, MSc & Kenzie L. Preston, PhD

1. Buprenorphine Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics
Sharon L. Walsh, PhD & Lisa S. Middleton, PhD

13. Buprenorphine metabolism and drug-drug interactions
Robert Taylor Jr., PhD, Robert B. Raffa, PhD, & Joseph V. Pergolizzi Jr., MD

· Buprenorphine: side effects and tolerability
Tabitha Washington, MD, MS & Gilbert J. Fanciullo, MD, MS

1. Buprenorphine and Opioid Rotation
Douglas L. Gourlay, MD, MSc, FRCP, FASAM & Howard A. Heit MD, FACP, FASAM

2. Methadone and buprenorphine use during the perinatal period
Alice Ordean MD, CCFP, MHSc

3. Methadone and Buprenorphine Prescribing in the Palliative Care Population
Shalini Dalal MD & Eduardo Bruera MD

4. Methadone Prescribing In The Sickle Cell Patient
Wally R. Smith, MD & Abdulkhaliq J. Alsalman, MS

5. Methadone and Buprenorphine Analgesia in Older Patients
David Lussier, MD, FRCP(c)