This book provides guidance on methadone prescribing and dispensing, and includes essential information on topics such as:

• methadone dose tapering
• drug interactions involving methadone
• using methadone in opioid withdrawal management
• managing pain in methadone-maintained patients
• managing pregnancy in women in MMT.

Peter Selby, MBBS, CCFP, is the Clinical Director of Addictions Program and Head of the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health as well as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He practices addiction medicine with a special focus on addiction during pregnancy. Some of his areas of research include smoking cessation in pregnancy: Zyban in the retreatment of relapsed smokers especially the use of pharmacotherapy and the treatment of heroin addiction in pregnancy, and web-based interventions: The Stop Smoking Centre among others.

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Meldon Kahan, MD, CCFP, FCFP, FRCPC, is medical director of the substance use service at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. In addition, he is an associate professor and funded researcher in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

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