Clinical pharmacology of methadone during induction onto maintenance treatment.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/207710

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Heroin addiction can be very successfully treated by substituting heroin with methadone. The transition of stopping heroin and starting methadone is risky and can be associated with death. This application seeks to explore the mechanisms of the increased risk during this transition period so that appropriate management strategies might be instituted.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 01-01-2004

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $422,310.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical biochemistry - inorganic elements and compounds

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

adverse treatment effects | dose individualisation | drug metabolism | hypoxia | methadone | methadone maintenance/poisoning | opioid dependence | pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

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