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Psychological and Psychiatric Consequences of Opiates

  • Gold M
  • Johnson C
Springer US, (1998), 363-377
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-2913-9_25
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Abstract

This chapter discusses psychological and psychiatric consequences of opiates. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) Topics include: history; pharmacology (use in medicine, mechanism of action); epidemiology; diagnosis of opioid addiction; and treatment (acute toxicity, treatment of opiate withdrawal, nonopiate pharmacological management of opiate withdrawal, naltrexone, clonidine, buprenorphine, opioid maintenance medications, methadone). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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Gold, M. S., & Johnson, C. R. (1998). Psychological and Psychiatric Consequences of Opiates. In Handbook of Substance Abuse (pp. 363–377). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2913-9_25

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