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METHADONE [11 records]

Record 1 2025-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

The term opioid analgesic refers to a broad class of drugs including(1) alkaloids extracted from poppy seeds(morphine, codeine) and their semisynthetic derivatives(oxycodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone) and(2) synthetic phenylpiperidines(meperidine, fentanyl) and synthetic pseudopiperidines such as methadone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

Les analgésiques opioïdes sont recommandés pour le traitement des douleurs modérées à sévères.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

Outpatient withdrawal management usually is offered in community mental health centers, methadone maintenance programs, addiction treatment programs, and private clinics. Essential components to a successful outpatient withdrawal management include a positive and helpful social support network and regular accessibility to the treatment provider.

Key term(s)
  • out-patient withdrawal management
  • out-patient detoxification
  • out-patient detox

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Psychologie clinique

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of National Programs (Canadian)
  • Pharmacology
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
OBS

In January 1998, the Correctional Service of Canada(CSC) implemented Phase 1 of [the] National Methadone Maintenance Treatment(MMT) Program for federal offenders with heroin or other opioid addictions...

Key term(s)
  • National Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programme
  • National MMT Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes nationaux canadiens
  • Pharmacologie
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
OBS

En janvier 1998, le Service correctionnel du Canada (SCC) a mis en œuvre la phase I du Programme national de traitement d'entretien à la méthadone, destiné aux délinquants sous responsabilité fédérale souffrant d'une dépendance à l'héroïne ou à d'autres opiacés [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 2023-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

Addiction social workers can be found in community clinics providing case management and referrals to appropriate social services, methadone programs where social workers provide therapy to those who have become dependent on opiates, in hospitals where addiction social workers help clients through detox, caring for those suffering from delusions and tremors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

British Columbia has traditionally been a leader in developing drug maintenance programs and has one of the most comprehensive methadone programs in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

[On a] comparé les dossiers de conduite de 104 ex-héroïnomanes pendant l'année ayant précédé leur admission dans un programme de traitement à la méthadone avec ces mêmes dossiers pendant l'année ayant suivi leur admission, alors qu'ils suivaient encore le traitement à la méthadone.

OBS

La méthadone est [...] utilisée [comme médicament de substitution pour les héroïnomanes] dans le cadre de programmes de substitution prolongée [...] ou de programmes de désintoxication (sevrage assisté à la méthadone).

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

Methadone maintenance treatment(MMT) can help injection drug users... reduce or stop injecting and return to productive lives.... Methadone... works by "occupying" the brain receptors sites affected by heroin and other opiates.

CONT

Methadone maintenance therapy is the most widely known and well-researched treatment for opioid dependency. Goals of therapy are to prevent abstinence syndrome, reduce narcotic cravings and block the euphoric effects of illicit opioid use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

[...] le traitement de substitution à la méthadone réduit la consommation d'héroïne, de cocaïne, et les comportements de consommation à risque pour la transmission du VIH et des ITSS [infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang] pour la majorité des personnes en traitement.

Spanish

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Record 7 2009-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

Short-term substitution therapy is used for opioid detoxification. Methadone, a long-acting opioid agonist... is approved by the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] for... short-term [narcotic] detoxification lasting up to 30 days... Protocol for methadone detoxification.... Start with methadone 10 mg as needed for withdrawal for the first 24 hours, with maximum daily dose of 40 mg.... assess the patient and start on once-a-day dosing, usually 30-40 mg... Dosage may be decreased by 5-10 mg/day...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

La désintoxication à la méthadone (sevrage à court terme) est abandonnée par la plupart des praticiens [...] au profit d'une substitution à moyen ou long terme (plusieurs mois), temps estimé nécessaire pour que le patient puisse tirer profit du traitement, en particulier temps nécessaire à la mise en place de stratégies de soins ou de prise en charge sociale, d'insertion, etc.

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Pharmacology
CONT

Whereas long-term use of opiates is generally safe under a doctor's direction(e. g., methadone maintenance), uncontrolled use produces many overdose deaths, has severe neonatal effects, and increases the risk of associated diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS [...].

CONT

The uncontrolled use of street drugs, such as cocaine or some prescription medications like Ritalin®, can distort one’s neurochemistry and thereby magnify or trigger mental problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Pharmacologie
CONT

[La toxicomanie] se caractérise par un ou plusieurs des comportements suivants : usage incontrôlé de drogues, usage compulsif, persistance à user de drogues malgré les méfaits causés et état de manque.

CONT

La suspension (fût-elle temporaire et partielle) des consommations à l'occasion d'une hospitalisation donne également un meilleur recul sur la mise en lumière d'un trouble psychique, potentiellement masqué en pratique ambulatoire par l'usage incontrôlé des drogues.

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

A subspecialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of addiction and other problems related to substance use.

CONT

The addictions psychiatry track includes specialized training in motivational interviewing, dual disorders treatment, addictions medications such as naltrexone and methadone, and behavioral interventions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Troubles mentaux
CONT

Outre la psychiatrie générale pour adultes et la psychiatrie pour enfants et adolescents, les centres psychiatriques universitaires disposent aujourd'hui des moyens d'effectuer la psychiatrie de la dépendance, la gérontopsychiatrie et la psychiatrie légale et pénitentiaire.

OBS

Bien qu'on le trouve dans quelques dictionnaires, l'anglicisme addiction est toujours contesté.

OBS

psychiatrie de la dépendance; psychiatrie des addictions : termes retenus par le réseau Entraide Traduction Santé.

Spanish

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Record 10 1996-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Government Programs (Non-Canadian)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
OBS

Part of the harm reduction programs initiated for drug users(for example, in Europe, for heroin addicts). Doctors in community health centres prescribe heroin, for example, to users to enable them to stay on heroin(thereby preventing withdrawal symptoms) and to get safe heroin. Advantages of these programs : keep users off the streets, maintains contact with physicians, less risk of HIV, make support available when users are ready to go off drug, undercut underground drug trade, reduce crime related to drug trade. The methadone maintenance programs are another example of harm reduction programs. They eliminate the need for needles because methadone is taken by mouth. These programs were pioneered in the city of Merseyside, England, and have been adopted in various European cities, but not yet in Canada. They have been in existence for more than 20 years.

OBS

Source: PASAN (Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network], Toronto.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes gouvernementaux non canadiens
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux

Spanish

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Record 11 1993-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Posology
OBS

Maintenance : Designed to maintain stable function or condition, as distinguished from remedial or prophylactic effect, as in a maintenance dose of methadone, a maintenance ration to a laboratory animal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Posologie
OBS

Par analogie à dose d'entretien laquelle assure le maintien de l'effet souhaité ou l'état physiologique satisfaisant au cours d'un traitement médicamenteux continu.

Spanish

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