The Treatment of Opioid Dependence

Eric C. Strain, M.D., and Maxine L. Stitzer, Ph.D., are professors in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I: Overview of Opioid Dependence
Chapter 1. Introduction and Historical Overview
Chapter 2. Regulatory, Cost, and Policy Issues
Chapter 3. Epidemiology of Opioid Use, Abuse, and Dependence
Part II: Methadone Treatment for Opioid Dependence
Chapter 4. Pharmacology of Methadone
Chapter 5. Beginning and Ending Methadone Dosing: Induction and Withdrawal
Chapter 6. Methadone Dose during Maintenance Treatment
Chapter 7. Counseling and Psychosocial Services
Chapter 8. Contingency Management Therapies
Chapter 9. Practical Issues of Program Organization and Operation
Part III: Other Medication Approaches
Chapter 10. Pharmacology of Buprenorphine
Chapter 11. Clinical Use of Buprenorphine
Chapter 12. Office-Based Treatment with Buprenorphine and Other Medications
Chapter 13. Pharmacology and Clinical Use of LAAM, Clonidine, and Lofexidine
Chapter 14. Pharmacology and Clinical Use of Naltrexone
Part IV: Other Treatment Approaches
Chapter 15. Medication-Free Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Chapter 16. Medically Supervised Withdrawal as Stand-Alone Treatment
Part V: Comorbidities in Opioid Dependence
Chapter 17. Other Substance Use Disorders: Prevalence, Consequences, Detection, and Management
Chapter 18. Comorbid Medical Disorders
Chapter 19. Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders
Part VI: Special Treatment Issues
Chapter 20. Specialty Treatment for Women
Chapter 21. Treatment of Persons under Legal Restrictions
Chapter 22. Treatment of Adolescents
Chapter 23. Prescription Opioid Nonmedical Use and Abuse
Chapter 24. Pain Management in Addicted Patients
Index