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Methadone pharmacology and induction
Season 1 · Episode 20

Methadone pharmacology and induction

Cracking Addiction

December 15, 202122m 28s

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Show Notes

Episode 20 of Cracking Addiction explores methadone, its origins, the pharmacology behind methadone and how to commence a patient on Methadone.

Methadone is a synthetic long acting mu receptor agonist suitable for the treatment of opioid use disorder. Methadone has a longer plasma half life than morphine (average 22 hours (15-32 hours) vs 2 hours for morphine) which permits once daily supervised dosing.

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