A 50-year-old woman addicted to heroin: review of treatment of heroin addiction.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Heroin addiction is a complicated medical and psychiatric issue, with well-established as well as newer modes of treatment. The case of Ms W, a 50-year-old woman with a long history of opiate addiction who has been treated successfully with methadone for 9 years and who now would like to consider newer alternatives, illustrates the complex issues of heroin addiction. The treatment of heroin addiction as a chronic disease is reviewed, including social, medical, and cultural issues and pharmacologic treatment with methadone and the more experimental medication options of buprenorphine and naltrexone.
Medical subject headings
- Heroin Dependence
- Methadone
- Narcotic Antagonists
- Narcotics