Methadone oral tablet is used to manage moderate to severe pain. It’s only given when other short-term or non-opioid pain drugs don’t work for you or if you can’t tolerate them.
When treating pain, methadone given on a fixed-dose schedule may have a narrow therapeutic Referenz in certain patient populations, especially when combined with other drugs, and should be reserved for cases where the benefits of opioid analgesia with methadone outweigh the known potential risks of cardiac conduction abnormalities, respiratory depression, altered mental states and postural hypotension.
The endpoint of titration is achievement of adequate pain relief, balanced against tolerability of opioid side effects. If a patient develops intolerable opioid related side effects, the methadone dose, or dosing interval, may need to be adjusted.
Abuse of methadone poses a risk of overdose and death. This risk is increased with concurrent abuse of methadone with alcohol and other substances. In addition, parenteral drug abuse is commonly associated with transmission of infectious diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.
Due to the opioid tolerance induced by methadone, when opioids are required for management of acute pain in methadone patients, somewhat higher and/or more frequent doses will often be required than would be the case for non-tolerant patients.
It may harm them and even cause death. Selling or giving away this medicine is dangerous and against the law.
Read the Patient Information that comes with methadone hydrochloride tablets before you take it and each time you get a new prescription.
“Doctor shopping” (visiting multiple prescribers) to obtain additional prescriptions is common among drug abusers and people suffering from untreated addiction. However, it should be important to Beurteilung that preoccupation with achieving adequate pain relief can be appropriate behavior in a patient with poor pain control.
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for maintenance treatment of narcotic drug addiction along with other social and medical services. Stopping maintenance treatment of narcotic drug addiction with methadone hydrochloride tablets may result in a return to narcotic drug use.
Examples of benzodiazepines include lorazepam, clonazepam, and alprazolam. These drugs should only Beryllium used with methadone when other drugs don’t work well enough.
Do not take other medicines with methadone hydrochloride tablets without first talking with your doctor.
Respiratory depression is the chief hazard associated with methadone hydrochloride administration. Methadone's peak respiratory depressant effects typically occur later, and persist longer than its peak analgesic effects, particularly rein the early dosing period.