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Safe storage of methadone in the home - an audit of the effectiveness of safety information giving

Harm Reduction Journal, 2005
Background Accidental poisoning by methadone occurs, particularly as a result of children ingesting a parent's methadone. Health care professionals have a responsibility to provide information and guidance to methadone users on safe storage of methadone.
McAuley Rosanna, Bloor Roger N, Smalldridge Norman   +2 more
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The Use of Low-Dose Methadone as Add-On to Ongoing Opioid Treatment in Palliative Cancer Care—An Underrated Treatment?

Life, 2022
The aim of this review is to summarize the current knowledge of low-dose methadone treatment in palliative cancer care. In Sweden, methadone is quite common in specialized palliative care, where almost a tenth of patients are prescribed this drug ...
Per Fürst
doaj   +1 more source

Methadone Withdrawal-Related Psychosis in a Patient With Hormone-Dependent Breast Cancer: A Case Report [PDF]

, 2023
Methadone withdrawal usually presents as a classical opiate withdrawal syndrome, including symptoms such as restlessness, pupillary dilation, sweating, insomnia, irritability, sneezing, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Pinho, Mauro, Coutinho, Francisco, Martins, Daniela O   +2 more
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Methadone treatment and patient-directed hospital discharges among patients with opioid use disorder: Observations from general medicine services at an urban, safety-net hospital

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Introduction: People with opioid use disorder (OUD) have high rates of discharge against medical advice from the hospital. Interventions for addressing these patient-directed discharges (PDDs) are lacking.
Hannah R. Tierney, Christopher L. Rowe, Diana A. Coffa, Shashi Sarnaik, Phillip O. Coffin, Hannah R. Snyder   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Methadone for prisoners [PDF]

The Lancet, 2016
1 Rich JD, McKenzie M, Larney S, et al. Methadone continuation versus forced withdrawal on incarceration in a combined US prison and jail: a randomised, open-label trial. Lancet 2015; 386: 350–59. 2 Kershnar S. A defense of retributivism. Int J Appl Philos 2000; 14: 97–117. 3 Gewirtz P. Methadone maintenance for heroin addicts.
Daniel, D'Hotman, Jonathan, Pugh, Thomas, Douglas   +2 more
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Intraoperative Methadone Use in Patients Undergoing Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgical Procedures

World Journal of Colorectal Surgery, 2023
Background: Postoperative pain control is an important aspect in the recovery of patients. Recent literature suggests that the extended half-life of methadone may reduce overall opioid utilization in postoperative patients.
Nathan S Kau
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal methadone use in pregnancy : factors associated with the development of neonatal abstinence syndrome and implications for healthcare resources

, 2009
The objectives of this study were to investigate factors associated with the development of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and to assess the implications for healthcare resources of infants born to drug-misusing women. Design.
Dryden, C, C Dryden, D Young, M Hepburn, Hepburn, M., Mactier, H., Young, DG, Dryden, C., MacTier, H, Hepburn, M, Young, D., H Mactier   +11 more
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Analysis of Methadone-Related Poisoning Cases

Fayixue Zazhi
ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics of methadone-related poisoning cases and provide a reference for forensic identification.MethodsA total of 71 cases of methadone-related poisoning reported from 1998 to 2023 in China and 26 cases of methadone ...
LI Ze-qi, XING Lei, ZHANG Hui-ge, HE Li-rou, ZHANG Jia-yi, WANG Jia-qi, LIU Shi-hao, YANG Wei-hong   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of concomitant drugs in the aetiology of fatal heroin- and methadone- related overdose [PDF]

, 2008
Heroin and methadone poisoning are significant causes of death of young people in the United Kingdom. In a high proportion of these fatalities concomitant substances are also detected.
Oliver, Phillip
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Impact of secured prescription implementation on ambulatory pregabalin use in France: A regional assessment in the French Nouvelle‐Aquitaine

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim The French authorities mandated the use of secure prescriptions for pregabalin on May 2021. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of this measure on pregabalin use and misuse in Nouvelle‐Aquitaine, a southwestern French region with around six million inhabitants.
Maika Munech‐Herran, Véronique Moysan, Bruno Lescarret, Clément Mathieu, Antoine Pariente, Nicolas Rousselot   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source