Walker, IDA. <br/><br/>
Prescription painkillers :  Prescription and Dependency / 
by Ida Walker. 
 - New York. :  Mason Crest Pub.,  c2008. 
 - 128 p.   23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9.78142E+12 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Analgesics, Opioid<br/>Opioid-Related Disorders<br/>Pain
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WM 270  / .W35 2008