Ricardo A. Cruciani • Helena Knotkova
Editors
2013
This volume describes the evolving role of methadone and buprenorphine—pharmacologically distinct opioids that share clinical utility in the management of both pain and addiction. It is timely work given the attention now focused on the effort to improve the safety of long-term opioid therapy for pain, in part by better management of drug abuse outcomes. By highlighting the role of two drugs with complex pharmacologies that have the potential for both liability and benefi t in two types of challenging disorders, it explores larger issues that have profound importance for the broader use of opioids in practice.