Abstract Background: Considering the fear of drug addicts from hangover symptoms and the costs of withdrawal treatment and their importance in deciding to withdraw, it is helpful to identify various ways of withdrawal and their effects. This study investigated the withdrawal symptoms of two methods of detoxification with clonidine and rapid detoxification of clonidine with naltrexone....

ultra rapid opioid detoxification (urod) is one of the new methods of detoxification. this method of detoxification involves putting patients under general anesthesia and actively giving them opioid antagonists. the objective of this study was to evaluate effects of anesthesia duration in urod on severity of withdrawal syndrome. sixty addicted patients seeking urod procedure assigned randomly t...

background: the common detoxification method is replacement of long effect opiate by short effect opiate and then reducing its amount gradually. more modern method is ultra rapid opiate detoxification (urod) by opiate antagonists, which is performed by general anesthesia. the advantages of two methods have not been confirmed. this study aimed to compare effectiveness and withdrawal rate in both...

background: the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of methadone detoxification with traditional method of gradual decrement in the abused amount of the refined opium dross (shireh) to control withdrawal syndrome in shireh-addicted patients. methods: in this study, two groups of shireh addicts were compared. the first group was treated by methadone and the second group by gradual...

The article provides an overview of the literature on the role of sorption detoxification using intestinal adsorbents (enterosorption method) in the multifaceted treatment of various diseases. The mechanism of action of adsorbents and their therapeutic effects are presented. We emphasized that intestinal adsorbent Enterosgel is a modern, effective, and safe detoxifying agent.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of methadone detoxification with traditional method of gradual decrement in the abused amount of the refined opium dross (Shireh) to control withdrawal syndrome in Shireh-addicted patients. Methods: In this study, two groups of Shireh addicts were compared. The first group was treated by methadone and the second group by gr...

Background & Aims: In this study the efficacy of traditional method, methadone tapering method and rapid method as three opiate detoxification treatments was compared based on demographic features and naltrexone consumption in a 6- month follow up. Method: This Cohort prospective study was performed on 140 opioid addict men referred to opiate detoxification center of Shahid Beheshti Hospital, K...

BACKGROUND Considering the fear of drug addicts from hangover symptoms and the costs of withdrawal treatment and their importance in deciding to withdraw, it is helpful to identify various ways of withdrawal and their effects. This study investigated the withdrawal symptoms of two methods of detoxification with clonidine and rapid detoxification of clonidine with naltrexone. METHODS This was ...