new clinical implications of opiate maintenance treatments
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New Clinical Implications of Opiate Maintenance Treatments
Opiate addiction is a chronic mental illness with severe repercussion in personal and public health. Various medicaments have been subjected to research in order to find a proper treatment, methadone is the most and wide used drug, buprenorphine/naloxone is the most recent ones, but other choices have been proposed such as prescribing heroin (1). The mentioned treatments, are considered as main...
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international journal of high risk behaviors and addictionجلد ۱، شماره ۲، صفحات ۸۸-۸۹
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