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Liver transplant and hepatitis C in methadone maintenance therapy: a case report

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2007
Methadone maintenance therapy for the treatment of opioid dependence continues to carry a social stigma. Until recently, patients on methadone were not considered for liver transplantation.
Bourgeois James A, Craemer Elana, Lester Laura, Ransibrahmanakul Kanat, Prosser Colette C, Hancock Meredith M, Rossaro Lorenzo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Methadone’s Moment [PDF]

JAMA
This work discusses unfettering methadone from outdated regulations to empower patients to access treatment and advocate for methadone's expansion in their local communities by working with pharmacies and local health systems.
Incze, Michael A, Simon, Caty, Suen, Leslie W   +2 more
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Effect of Eight Weeks Forced Swimming Training with Methadone Supplementation on Aspartate Aminotransferase, Alanine Aminotransferase, and Alkaline Phosphatase of Rats [PDF]

Journal of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, 2016
Background & Objective: Narcotics abuse can induce liver disorders; nevertheless, exercises improve liver disorders. The present research aimed to review the effect of eight weeks forced swimming training with methadone supplementation on liver enzymes ...
Seyed Ali Hoseini, Abdosaleh Zar, Seyed Ali Hoseini, Ghobad Hassanpour, Maryam Kheirdeh, Mehdi Noura   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Developing the Inpatient Mental Health Pharmaceutical Assessment and Care Tool (IMPACT) for use by UK mental health pharmacy teams—a modified Delphi study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims To develop an evidence‐ and consensus‐based patient prioritization tool for use by UK mental health inpatient pharmacy teams. Methods A modified‐Delphi technique was used to obtain experts' agreement on the content, design and practical use of the patient prioritization tool.
Fatima Q. Alshaikhmubarak, Richard N. Keers, Petra Brown, Penny J. Lewis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magnesium Salt, a Simple Strategy to Improve Methadone Analgesia in Chronic Pain: An Isobolographic Preclinical Study in Neuropathic Mice

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
Analgesic efficacy of methadone in cancer and chronic non-cancer pains is greater than that of other opioids, probably because of its unique pharmacokinetics properties and also because it targets glutamatergic receptors in addition to µ-opioid receptors.
Valeria González, Teresa Pelissier, Victoria Cazanga, Alejandro Hernández, Luis Constandil, Luis Constandil   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contribution of Addictovigilance data to assess adverse‐events linked to psychoactive substances in children and adolescents

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims We sought to characterize adverse events and deaths associated with the use of psychoactive substances in children and adolescents. Methods Two French Addictovigilance databases were analysed: spontaneous reports and deaths over the period 2016–2021, in subjects aged 10–<18 years. An unsupervised classification was implemented on consumption data (
Hélène Peyrière, Anne Batisse, Nathalie Fouilhé Sam‐Laï, Amélie Daveluy, Christine Fournier‐Choma, Sylvie Deheul, Cécile Chevalier, Clémence Lacroix, Valérie Gibaja, Aurélie Aquizerate, Stéphanie Pain, Emilie Jouanjus, Marie‐Christine Picot, Erika Nogue   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relative risk of fatal poisoning by methadone or buprenorphine within the wider population of England and Wales

BMJ Open, 2015
Objective To examine the population-wide overdose risk emerging from the prescription of methadone and buprenorphine for opioid substitution treatment in England and Wales.Design Retrospective administrative data study.Setting National databases for ...
Dave Marteau, Rebecca McDonald, Kamlesh Patel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of ABCB1 and CYP2B6 genetic polymorphisms on methadone metabolism, dose and treatment response in patients with opioid addiction: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Genetic variability may influence methadone metabolism, dose requirements, and risk of relapse.To determine whether the CYP2B6*6 or ABCB1 (rs1045642) polymorphisms are associated with variation in methadone response (plasma concentration, dose, or ...
Brittany B Dennis, Monica Bawor, Lehana Thabane, Zahra Sohani, Zainab Samaan   +4 more
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UHPLC‐QTOFMS Urine Drug Screening With Dilute‐and‐Shoot Sample Preparation and Vacuum‐Insulated Probe‐Heated Electrospray Ionization

Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.
The new ionization technique, vacuum‐insulated probe‐heated electrospray, allows for a simple dilute‐and‐shoot sample preparation to be used with liquid chromatography time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry in urine drug screening. Comparison with a method relying on solid‐phase extraction and conventional electrospray ionization shows improved performance ...
Mira Sundström, Pirkko Kriikku, Ilkka Ojanperä, Carsten Baessmann, Anna Pelander   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confidence in providing methadone maintenance treatment of primary care providers in Vietnam

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Background Delivering methadone treatment in community health facilities by primary care providers is a task-shifting strategy to expand access to drug use treatment, especially in rural mountainous areas.
Bich Diep Nguyen, Li Li, Chunqing Lin, Thu Trang Nguyen, Steven Shoptaw, Minh Giang Le   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source