Opioid Agonist Therapy: A Prescriber's Guide to Treatment

Third Edition—formerly Methadone Maintenance: A Physician’s Guide to Treatment

Edited by Peter Selby, Launette Rieb, Vincent Lam, Maria Zhang and Jonathan Bertram

Format: Perfect bound

Health care providers play a key role in addressing Canada’s ongoing opioid use crisis. Opioid Agonist Therapy: A Prescriber’s Guide to Treatment is a comprehensive, practical resource that supports the work of physicians and nurse practitioners who are authorized to prescribe medication to treat opioid use disorder.

This updated guide reflects the latest evidence and practices that have evolved since the previous edition was published in 2011—before buprenorphine and other pharmacological options became available to meet the varying needs of people with opioid use disorder.

This guide is relevant to both practitioners working in primary care and those who focus on addiction medicine. With contributions from more than 50 experts across Canada, it provides essential information on opioid agonist therapy (OAT), such as:

• dosing with methadone, buprenorphine, slow-release oral morphine and injectable OAT (diacetylmorphine and hydromorphone)
• continuity of care for hospitalized or incarcerated patients
• OAT and co-occurring conditions (pregnancy, chronic pain, psychiatric disorders, HIV and hepatitis C)
• OAT for specific populations (people living in poverty, Indigenous people, youth, older adults).

Download a pdf of the table of contents.

About the editors

Peter Selby, MBBS, CCFP, FCFP, MHSc, DFASAM, Senior medical consultant and clinician scientist, Addictions, CAMH; director, Mental Health and Addictions Division, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Launette Rieb, MD, MSc, CCFP (AM), FCFP, CCSAM, DipABAM, FASAM, Pain and addiction medicine consultant, Actum Health, Surrey, BC; and Rapid Access Addictions Clinic, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver

Vincent Lam, MD, CCFP (AM), Medical director, Coderix Medical Clinic, Toronto; lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Maria Zhang, RPh, BScPhm, PharmD, MSc, Advanced practice clinical leader (Pharmacy), CAMH; clinician educator, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto

Jonathan Bertram, MD, CCFP (AM), Addictions physician, CAMH; addictions and pain physician, Clarington Family Health Organization

This product is available in English only.
Ce produit est offert en anglais seulement.

Pages: 316 • Published: 2022 • ISBN: 9781771144438 (print) • Product Code: P6528

Ce produit est offert en anglais seulement.
This product is available in English only.

Pages : 316 • Publié : 2022 • ISBN : 9781771144438 (version imprimée) • Code de produit : P6528