Methadone Maintenance
A Pharmacist’s Guide to Treatment
- Publisher
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2004
- Category
- Pharmacology, Drug Guides
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Spiral bound
- ISBN
- 9780888684295
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
- List Price
- $69.95
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Description
This newly revised edition is an important reference for practising pharmacists who dispense methadone. This comprehensive, practical manual includes in-depth information about methadone and MMT along with pages of appendices comprising information for pharmacists to share with patients.
About the authors
Pearl Isaac, BScPhm, RPh, graduated from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Pharmacy and is a pharmacist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), with a specialty in addiction. She works in the area of substance abuse treatment, with a special interest in opioid maintenance treatment. Pearl is a consultant with the Addiction Clinical Consultation Service at CAMH, which provides consultations to physicians, pharmacists, therapists and other health care providers in Ontario. She teaches in the area of substance abuse at the Faculty of Pharmacy at U of T and is involved in other educational initiatives for health care providers. In addition to this book, Pearl has published articles on substance use in pharmacy journals.
Anne Kalvik, pharmacienne agréée, B.Sc.Pharm., est pharmacienne au Centre de toxicomanie et de santé mentale à Toronto, en Ontario.
John Brands, M.H.Sc, CPSO is also a contributor to the publication Changing patient characteristics with increased Methadone Maintenance availability published by Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
