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Opioid Rotation

Known as: Opioid Switching, Opioid Substitution, Narcotic Switching 
Shifting from one opiate to another to maintain effectiveness in analgesia while minimizing the side-effect profile.
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Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Novel psychoactive substance use among treatment‐seeking opiate users: The role of life events and psychiatric symptoms
Over the past 5 years, a shift to the use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) has been observed among opioid users. The aim of… 
2017
2017
Management of hepatitis C in decentralised versus centralised drug substitution programmes and minimally invasive point-of-care tests to close gaps in the HCV cascade.
BACKGROUND In Switzerland, intravenous drug use accounts for the majority of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. Early HCV… 
2016
2016
The effects of needle-sharing and opioid substitution therapy on incidence of hepatitis C virus infection and reinfection in people who inject drugs
SUMMARY Although high hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence has been observed in people who inject drugs (PWID) for decades… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Barriers and facilitators for assessment and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in the opioid substitution treatment setting: insights from the ETHOS study
Provision of hepatitis C virus (HCV) assessment and treatment via opioid substitution treatment (OST) clinics has been posed as… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Harm reduction interventions for drug injectors or heroin users in Spain: expanding coverage as the storm abates.
AIMS To show the utility of analysing time trends of need and coverage of needle-exchange programmes (NEPs) and opioid… 
2009
2009
Methamphetamine injection independently predicts hepatitis C infection among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting.
Review
2009
Review
2009
Delirium at the end of life.
INTRODUCTION Delirium is common in the last weeks of life, occurring in 26% to 44% of people with advanced cancer in hospital… 
2009
2009
Integration of methadone maintenance treatment and HIV care for injecting drug users: a cohort study in Bandung, Indonesia.
AIM to know the effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment (ART) among methadone clients and patients who started ART outside the… 
2007
2007
Access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for injecting drug users in the WHO European Region 2002-2004.
2005
2005
The effect of buprenorphine and benzodiazepines on respiration in the rat.
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