Opioid Dependence Treatment and Guidelines

Opioid dependence treatment and guidelines.

BACKGROUND In response to the growing incidence of opioid dependence, guidelines have been created, and new treatments are being developed to assist physicians in treating dependence and withdrawal of opioids. OBJECTIVE To review treatment modalities and guidelines utilized in opioid dependence. SUMMARY Guidelines for the treatment of opioid dependence have been developed by organizations s...

Guidelines for the Psychosocially Assisted Pharmacological Treatment of Opioid Dependence

Office-based opioid dependence treatment.

BACKGROUND Opioid misuse and abuse occurring in association with the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain are not new phenomena, but their increasing prevalence in recent years is unprecedented. Advancements in pharmaceutical technologies have provided opioid-related drugs, which lack the pure mu agonist activity characteristic of the typical opioid congeners. This absent or altered mu receptor...

Traditional Chinese and Indian medicine in the treatment of opioid-dependence: a review

Objective: In this study, the current literatures on the use of herbs and herbal preparations of Traditional Chinese and Indian Medicine for the treatment of opioid addiction were reviewed. Methods: Search was done in databases such as Pub Med, Science Direct, Scopus, Springer Link, and Google Scholar. Results: Among 18 retrieved studies, 3 studies were about asafetida extract, an approved prep...

Opioid dependence and addiction during opioid treatment of chronic pain.

Throughout the long history of opioid drug use by humans, it has been known that opioids are powerful analgesics, but they can cause addiction. It has also been observed, and is now substantiated by multiple reports and studies, that during opioid treatment of severe and short-term pain, addiction arises only rarely. However, when opioids are extended to patients with chronic pain, and therapeu...