methadone
methadone
Definition
metha·done (met̸h′ə dōn′)
noun
a synthetic narcotic drug, CHNO, used in medicine to treat heroin and morphine addicts: it is more potent than morphine, with a longer duration of action and milder withdrawal symptoms
Etymology: < (6 di)meth(yl)a(mino-4,4-)d(iphenyl-3-heptan)one
methadone
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- prescribe: There is much more to the care of drug users than prescribing methadone.
- dispense: The national policy on heroin treatment is to dispense methadone to be consumed orally, every day, in the presence of the pharmacist.
- receive: For the last two months I have been receiving methadone every morning.
- use: Indeed, 44 % on methadone used heroin on a daily basis.
- take: In some parts of England, this model has been followed with community pharmacists playing an important role in supervising patients taking oral methadone.
- give: It is illegal to sell or give methadone to anyone else.
Adjective modifier
- injectable: Firstly cost, injectable methadone is roughly twice the price of methadone mixture.
- oral: Examples of detoxification regimes using oral methadone are shown in the above table.
- prescribed: It would be short-sighted for any health care professional to assume that, once on prescribed methadone, all users are stabilized.
- regular: Correspondingly, there is severely questionable recovery when being prescribed regular Methadone while working a Twelve Step program.
Modifies a noun
- maintenance: Program quality effects on patient outcomes during methadone maintenance: a study of 17 clinics.
- dosage: The near term opportunity relates to new improved methadone dosage forms incorporated into the ADS system.
- prescription: Many patients coming into prison are already on methadone prescriptions.
- dose: References 3. NTA Research into Practice 4: More than just methadone dose.
- treatment: However, not all heroin users want methadone treatment.
- mixture: Firstly cost, injectable methadone is roughly twice the price of methadone mixture.
Noun used with modifier
- dose: The move to more high dose methadone along with the current evidence has been slow progress.
- prison: The cost per heroin free day, compared with no prison methadone, was estimated.
- heroin: Now addicts are being offered the heroin substitute methadone.
- substitute: Now addicts are being offered the heroin substitute methadone.
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