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Part II: Practice of Opioid-Prescription

Choosable Items of this Part:

10.1 Methadone

10.2 Intravenous Heroin

16.1 Practical and Makeshift Dose-Equivalence Guidelines

16.2 Guideline Parameters and Practical Models for the Prescription of Opioids

16.7 The Change from one Opioid agonist to Another

16.8 Reduction and Withdrawal From Opioids

 

 

10 Clinical experience

10.1 Methadone

10.2 Intravenous Heroin

10.3 Sugarettes

10.4 Morphinepentasulphate, Retarded Morphine

10.5 Mixed Prescription of Heroin and Methadone

10.6 Mixed Prescription of Heroin and Morphinepentasulphate

 

11 Diversified Prescription of Opioids

11.1 Equivalence - Dose

11.2 Principals of Safe Prescription of Opioids

 

12 Indications for an opioid-based Treatment of an opioid-dependent Patient

12.1 Indications for Beginning of an opioid-based Treatment

12.2 Indications for Stopping an opioid-based Treatment

12.3 Relative Contradications

 

13 Conditions for the Prescription of Opioids

13.1 Sight-Supervised Consumption

13.2 Take Home Doses

13.3 Holidays

13.4 Opioid-based Treatment in Prisons

13.5 Opioid-based Inpatient Treatment

 

14 Institutional Requirements for opioid-based Treatments

14.1 Requirements of Offers in Treatment and Care

14.2 Requirements of Staff

14.3 Infrastructural Requirements

15 Differential indications for the different Opioids used in opioid-based Treatment

15.1 Indications for Methadone

15.2 Indications for Morphine

15.3 Indications for Heroin

15.4 Indications for Buprenorphine

15.5 Indications for Codeine

15.6 Indications for LAAM

15.7 Indications for Naltrexone

15.8 Indications for Cocaine?

 

16 Diversified Prescription of Opioids

16.1 Practical and Makeshift Dose-Equivalence Guidelines

16.2 Guideline Parameters and Practical Models for the Prescription of Opioids

16.3 The First Dose and the Rise to Saturation with Opioids

16.4 The Loss of Tolerance

16.5 Minimal Waiting Time Until The Next Consumption of Opioids

16.6 How Many Consumptions? Consumptional Patterns and mixed Consumptions

16.7 The Change from one Opioid agonist to Another

16.8 Reduction and Withdrawal From Opioids

 

17 Outpatient Withdrawal and other Outpatient Treatment

17.1 Methadone Outpatient Withdrawal

17.2 Buprenorphine Outpatient Withdrawal

17.3 Codeine Outpatient Withdrawal

17.4 Morphinepentasulfate in a Retarded Form

17.5 After-Care

 

18 Antagonists

18.1 Pure Opioid antagonists

18.2 Agonist/Antagonist

 

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