Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy

Here is an invaluable guide to the safe use of methadone and buprenorphine. It includes chapters on pharmacology, adverse effects, safe rotation from other opioids, cardiac toxicity, prescribing, pharmacokinetics, equianalgesic dose and replacement therapy.

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.

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

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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

2. 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

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

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

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

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