PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Naltrexone, Methadone, Opiate
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Motivational enhancement technique (met) help increase motivation to change and move toward a stage where they"re ready to work on modifying their problematic substance use the urge. Often people trade one addiction for another or spend all their lives fighting. Agonist substitution providing person with safer drug that has chemical makeup similar to addictive drug. Methadone opiate agonist often given as a heroin substitute. May be dependent on methadone for the rest of their. Cross-tolerant acting on same neurotransmitter receptors. Harm reduction trading a more harmful addiction for a much lives less harmful alternative. Buprenorphine newer substitution treatment for heroin; partial opiate agonist (rather than a full opiate agonist like methadone) Antagonist drugs block or counteract effects of psychoactive drugs. Naltrexone most often prescribed opiate-antagonist drug. When given to person dependent on opiates, it produces immediate withdrawal symptoms. Person must be withdrawn from opiate completely before starting this drug.
