Implants and depot injections for treating opioid dependence: Qualitative study of people who use or have used heroin

‘Opioid pharmacotherapy’ (OPT), ‘opioid substitution treatment’ (OST) and ‘opioid agonist treatment’ (OAT) are all terms that describe the administration of medications to people dependent on opioids in order to achieve ‘defined treatment aims’ (WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS, 2004). Pharmacothera pies for opioid dependence include opioid agonists (e.g., methadone), partial agonists (e.g., buprenorphine), opioid antagonists (e.g., naltrexone), and alaph-2-adrenergic agonists (e.g., lofexidine; Stotts et al., 2010).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - May 25, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Joanne Neale, Charlotte N.E. Tompkins, Rebecca McDonald, John Strang Tags: Full length article Source Type: research