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Seminar In Practical Management: A practical guide for those involved in office‐based methadone and other prescribing for addiction and pain management
Author(s) -
BYRNE A. J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1080/09595239996626
Subject(s) - methadone , dependency (uml) , addiction , medical prescription , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , depression (economics) , pain management , medicine , chronic pain , psychology , nursing , physical therapy , computer science , artificial intelligence , economics , macroeconomics
This article aims to demonstrate that general practitioners can be involved in dependency treatment including methadone prescription in the normal course of their practice. As long as specialist and hospital support is available for different cases, GPs can look after dependency and chronic pain problems just as they look after schizophrenia, diabetes and depression.