Prescription painkillers : Prescription and Dependency /
Walker, IDA.
Prescription painkillers : Prescription and Dependency / by Ida Walker. - New York. : Mason Crest Pub., c2008. - 128 p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The current problem -- The history of opioids -- Early regulation and treatment -- The background and characteristics of prescription opioid users -- Characteristics of abuse and dependence -- How opioids are abused -- Opioid pharmacology and the individual opioids -- The oxycontin story -- Twelve step programs for opioid abuse -- Treatment of prescription opioid addiction.
9.78142E+12
Analgesics, Opioid
Opioid-Related Disorders
Pain
WM 270 / .W35 2008
Prescription painkillers : Prescription and Dependency / by Ida Walker. - New York. : Mason Crest Pub., c2008. - 128 p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The current problem -- The history of opioids -- Early regulation and treatment -- The background and characteristics of prescription opioid users -- Characteristics of abuse and dependence -- How opioids are abused -- Opioid pharmacology and the individual opioids -- The oxycontin story -- Twelve step programs for opioid abuse -- Treatment of prescription opioid addiction.
9.78142E+12
Analgesics, Opioid
Opioid-Related Disorders
Pain
WM 270 / .W35 2008