Open AccessCardiologists' Knowledge and Attitudes About Methadone and Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment: A Survey Study in Tehran, Iran
Author(s) -
Arsia Taghva,
Farhad Amnollahi,
Alireza Khoshdel,
Mohammad Reza Kazemi,
Kamyab Alizadeh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
thrita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2352-0620
pISSN - 2352-0612
DOI - 10.5812/thrita.20689
Subject(s) - medicine , buprenorphine , observational study , methadone , methadone maintenance , family medicine , addiction , opioid , emergency medicine , psychiatry , receptor
Todays, methadone and buprenorphine maintaining treatment (MMT/BMT) is considered an effective method for opioid-dependent patients. It seems that lack of enough information among health care specialists including cardiologists about such treatments could result in some problems for patients such as relapse into addiction.
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