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Basic Pharmacology: How Methadone Works? by J.T. Payte, Jeffrey Smith and Joycelyn Woods

Time to read: 1 min

J. Thomas Payte, M.D. is Medical Director and Founder of Drug Dependence Associates in San Antonio, Texas, Chair of the Maintenance Medications Committee of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a member of NAMAs Advisory Board.

Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D. has a degree is central nervous system pharmacology.

Joycelyn Woods, M.A. is President of NAMA. Her degree is in neurological psychology and she had done brain mapping of opiate receptors and published one of the early papers on it.

Index

PART
I 		PART
II 		PART
III

The Basics of Pharmacology

The Pharmacology of Opioids

Drugs and Conditions That Impact On the Action of Methadone

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