Opioid maintenance therapy with slow release oral morphine: Experience from India

Journal of Substance Use

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 259-261

  Rao, Ravindra V ^a   Dhawan, Anju ^a   Sapra, Neerja ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BUPRENORPHINE; CANNABIS; DIAMORPHINE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NICOTINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CONSTIPATION; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; GASTRITIS; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHADONE TREATMENT; OPIATE ADDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLOW RELEASE FORMULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26044454087     PISSN: 14659891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14659890500136972     Document Type: Letter

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