Methadone

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case of infant delirium in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • A chronic sheep preparation for the study of drug pharmacokinetics in spinal and ventricular CSF. 
  • A phase I study of D-methadone in patients with chronic pain. 
  • A preliminary study comparing methadone and buprenorphine in patients with chronic pain and coexistent opioid addiction. 
  • Alcohol consumption in persons on methadone maintenance therapy. 
  • Alcoholism among narcotic addicts and patients on methadone maintenance. 
  • Alcoholism as a risk factor in methadone maintenance. A randomized controlled trial. 
  • Alteration by methadone of catecholamine uptake and release in isolated rat adrenomedullary storage vesicles. 
  • Alterations in the development of catecholamine turnover induced by perinatal methadone: differences in central vs. peripheral sympathetic nervous systems. 
  • An intracellular opiate receptor. 
  • Assessing pathological detoxification fear among methadone maintenance patients: the DFSS. 
  • Buprenorphine-mediated transition from opioid agonist to antagonist treatment: state of the art and new perspectives. 
  • Buprenorphine/Naloxone and methadone effects on laboratory indices of liver health: a randomized trial. 
  • CSF distribution of morphine, methadone and sucrose after intrathecal injection. 
  • Catecholamine synthesis, storage and release in adrenal medulla and whole brain during acute and chronic methadone administration. 
  • Catecholaminergic regulation of opiate-stimulated growth hormone secretion in the developing rat. 
  • Changes in mu opioid receptors and rheological properties of erythrocytes among opioid abusers. 
  • Cocaine use by clients in methadone programs: significance, scope, and behavioral interventions. 
  • Conservative Management of Neuropathic Pain in a Patient With Pancoast-Tobias Syndrome: A Case Report. 
  • Delays in growth and biochemical development of rat brain caused by maternal methadone administration: are the alterations in synaptogenesis and cellular maturation independent of reduced maternal food intake? 
  • Development of central and peripheral catecholaminergic systems in rats addicted perinatally to methadone. 
  • Do methadone patients substitute other drugs for heroin? Predicting substance use at 1-year follow-up. 
  • Drug misusers in police custody. 
  • Early outcomes following low dose naltrexone enhancement of opioid detoxification. 
  • Effect of chronic methadone administration on neuroendocrine function in developing rats. 
  • Effect of chronic methadone administration on neuroendocrine function in young adult rats. 
  • Effects of maternal methadone administration on ornithine decarboxylase in brain and heart of the offspring: relationships of enzyme activity to dose and to growth impairment in the rat. 
  • Effects of neonatal or maternal methadone administration on ornithine decarboxylase activity in brain and heart of developing rats. 
  • Effects of perinatal exposure to methadone on development of neurotransmission: biochemical bases for behavioral alterations. 
  • Emergency therapeutical approach simulating ultrarapid opioid detoxification in methadone withdrawal precipitated by erroneous administration of naltrexone. 
  • Endocrine consequences of perinatal methadone exposure. 
  • Endocrine effects of methadone in rats; acute effects in adults. 
  • Facilitators and Barriers to Naloxone Kit Use Among Opioid-Dependent Patients Enrolled in Medication Assisted Therapy Clinics in North Carolina. 
  • Failure of mean red cell volume to serve as a biologic marker for alcoholism in narcotic dependence. A randomized control trial. 
  • Follow-up of methadone maintenance patients hospitalized for abuse of alcohol and barbiturates. 
  • Identification and treatment of alcoholics who use opiates. 
  • Infrequent illicit methadone use among stimulant-using patients in methadone maintenance treatment programs: a national drug abuse treatment clinical trials network study. 
  • Intraoperative Methadone for the Prevention of Postoperative Pain: A Randomized, Double-blinded Clinical Trial in Cardiac Surgical Patients. 
  • Intravenous methadone for cancer pain unrelieved by morphine and hydromorphone: clinical observations. 
  • Intravenous methadone in the management of chronic cancer pain: safe and effective starting doses when substituting methadone for fentanyl. 
  • Is treatment for alcoholism effective in persons on methadone maintenance? 
  • Lefetamine: new abuse of an old drug--clinical evaluation of opioid activity. 
  • Maternal methadone administration: deficit in development of alpha-noradrenergic responses in developing rat brain as assessed by norepinephrine stimulation of 33Pi incorporation into phospholipids in vivo. 
  • Maturation of sympathetic neurotransmission in the rat heart. I. Ontogeny of the synaptic vesicle uptake mechanism and correlation with development of synaptic function. Effects of neonatal methadone administration on development of synaptic vesicles. 
  • Medications that prolong the QT interval. 
  • Methadone analgesia in cancer pain patients on chronic methadone maintenance therapy. 
  • Methadone and cocaine. 
  • Methadone inhibits serotonin and norephinephrine uptake into rat brain synaptosomes and synaptic vesicles in vitro but not in vivo. 
  • Methadone maintenance in pregnancy: a reappraisal. 
  • Morphine vs Methadone Treatment for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. 
  • Non-neurogenic mechanism for reserpine-induced release of catecholamines from the adrenal medulla of neonatal rats: possible modulation by opiate receptors. 
  • Norepinephrine content of the rat kidney during development: alterations induced by perinatal methadone. 
  • Ontogeny of endocrine responses to methadone in rats. 
  • Opiate addiction and alcoholism: the feasibility of combined treatment approaches. 
  • Opiate detoxification of methadone maintenance patients using lefetamine, clonidine and buprenorphine. 
  • Opioid use affects antioxidant activity and purine metabolism: preliminary results. 
  • Palliative care pharmacotherapy literature summaries and analyses. 
  • Parenteral methadone: an essential medication for the treatment of pain. 
  • Perinatal exposure to methadone: how do early biochemical alterations cause neurofunctional disturbances? 
  • Perinatal methadone addiction affects brain synaptic development of biogenic amine systems in the rat. 
  • Pitfalls of opioid rotation: substituting another opioid for methadone in patients with cancer pain. 
  • Precocious development of sympatho-adrenal function in rats whose mothers received methadone. 
  • Predicting cocaine use among methadone patients: analysis of findings from a national study. 
  • Prevalence and diagnostic reliability of methadone maintenance detoxification fear. 
  • Problem drinking and low-dose naltrexone-assisted opioid detoxification. 
  • QTc interval prolongation associated with intravenous methadone. 
  • Referring heroin users from compulsory detoxification centers to community methadone maintenance treatment: a comparison of three models. 
  • Responses of heart ornithine decarboxylase and adrenal catecholamines to methadone and sympathetic stimulants in developing and adults rats. 
  • Serendipitous rapid detoxification from opiates: the importance of time-dependent processes. 
  • Serotonin syndrome in a chronic-pain patient receiving concurrent methadone, ciprofloxacin, and venlafaxine. 
  • Survey of methadone-drug interactions among patients of methadone maintenance treatment program in Taiwan. 
  • The ability of a Self-Administered Alcohol Screening Test (mSAAST) to detect future excessive alcohol consumption in persons on methadone maintenance. 
  • The combination very low-dose naltrexone-clonidine in the management of opioid withdrawal. 
  • The effect of alcoholism in methadone-maintained persons on productive activity: a randomized control trial. 
  • The impact of HCV therapy in a high HIV-HCV prevalence population: A modeling study on people who inject drugs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 
  • Toxic effects of maternal methadone administration on cardiac development in the neonatal rat: potential participation of altered polyamine levels in growth impairment. 
  • Use of very low-dose naltrexone during opiate detoxification. 
  • Using a latent variable approach to inform gender and racial/ethnic differences in cocaine dependence: a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Very low dose naltrexone addition in opioid detoxification: a randomized, controlled trial. 
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  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine