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A1 - Methadone 201
Moderator: Laura McNicholas, MD, Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, PA

Trusandra Taylor, MD , JEVS Human Services, Philadelphia, PA

Susan Neshin, MD, JSAS Healthcare Inc., Metuchen, NJ

J. Thomas Payte, MD, Colonial Management Group, LP, Orlando, FL

This interactive workshop is designed for the physician/clinician who has taken Opioid Maintenance Pharmacotherapy: A Course for Clinicians and is now treating patients in an opioid treatment program. Reviews of this course showed requests for additional time and more advanced information related to opioid addiction treatment. A short update on new information and ongoing research about methadone will be presented. Topics for discussion may include: methadone associated mortality, induction issues, cardiac risk assessment/management, drug-drug interactions, benzodiazepines and pain management.

Participants are encouraged to bring interesting/complex cases to stimulate questions that will illustrate issues in the successful management of patients on methadone maintenance.