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Any data-based tips on the optimal and maximal rate of methadone taper, especially when the taper is not the patient's choice?
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Individual issue : Limited & sketchy data. Ultra rapid opiate detox urod or rapid opiate detox under anesthesia roda followed by vivitrol maintenance may be fastest; regarded controversial by many, must be selective, hi cost & success rate less favorable for long acting, but can reach 50%. Is Buprenorphine an option? 1mg/day? See data on the incarcerated whose Methadone gets taken away abruptly, can be pos or neg.
Answered 11/27/2017
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