UI - 000096

AU - Jimenez AC

AU - Gusmorino P

AU - Pinter I

AU - Snow B

TI - The use of clonidine for the treatment of meperidine withdrawal in a multidisciplinary pain

program setting. A case presentation

AB - The management of iatrogenic drug dependence in individuals with pain can be more difficult than the

treatment of the pain itself. In addition to a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of a patient with

chronic pain, there is a need for a rapid, safe, and effective method of detoxification from opiate use.

Clonidine HCl, a nonopiate, has been found, in this case presentation, to be a valuable option

SO - Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute 1987;47:72-77