ILOs
- Understand the range of opiate and opioid drugs and the potential for misuse.
- Understand that both licit and illicit benzodiazepine dependence exists and the range of drugs involved.
- Understand the different routes of administration for illicit drugs and in particular heroin.
- Describe the harms secondary to combining opiates and benzodiazepines –including risk of death-and the risks from each drug category independently.
- Understand the concept of harm reduction.
- Describe the role of methadone, buprenorphine, naloxone and providing clean injecting equipment to people who inject drugs.
- Describe potential treatment strategies for benzodiazepine dependence.
- Give some examples of opioid drugs
- What are the main effects of opioids
- How does addiction work with reference to the dopamine pathway?
- What is the definition of opioid dependance? (ICD-10)
- How do we clinically examine patients with addictions?
- Outline the assessment and management of patients that have overdosed on opiates
- What are the symptoms and management associated with opioid withdrawal?
- How we treat opiate dependency in the long term?
- What is methodone and how does it work??
- What is bupronorphine?
- Compare and contrast the pros and cons of methadone and buprenorphine