Prescription opioid abuse among enrollees into methadone maintenance treatment

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-71

  Rosenblum, Andrew ^a   Parrino, Mark ^b   Schnoll, Sidney H ^c   Fong, Chunki ^a   Maxwell, Carleen ^b   Cleland, Charles M ^a   Magura, Stephen ^a   Haddox, J David ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence   (United States)

^c One Stamford Forum   (United States)

Author keywords

Geography; Methadone maintenance; Pain; Prescription opioids

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; DIAMORPHINE; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROMORPHONE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PERCOCET;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERNET; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; METHADONE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; STATISTICS; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250649689     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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