Success and failure at outpatient opioid detoxification evaluating the process of clonidine-and methadone-assisted withdrawal

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 103-110

  Rounsaville, Bruce J ^a   Kosten, Thomas ^a   Kleber, Herbert ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; CLONIDINE; METHADONE; OPIATE; PLACEBO;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; IRRITABILITY; MOUTH; MYALGIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTOXICITY; OPIATE ADDICTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLONIDINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; METHADONE; MIDDLE AGE; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021920049     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198502000-00007     Document Type: Article

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