Methadone Disposition: Implementing Lessons Learned.
Methadone Disposition: Implementing Lessons Learned.
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美沙酮处置:吸取经验教训。
DOI:
10.1002/jcph.1427
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Greenblatt,DavidJ
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作者:
Kharasch,EvanD;Greenblatt,DavidJ
Methadone is one of the most intensively studied and persistently misunderstood drugs in the contemporary therapeutic armamentarium. First synthesized in the 1930’s, it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1947 for analgesic and antitussive use. 1 Subsequently in the mid 1960’s it was shown to be effective in treating opiate addiction, and thence approved by FDA in 1972 for this use. Methadone is effective in treating acute and chronic pain, increasingly used in contemporary anesthesia practice owing to the long duration of effect, 2 is one of the two mainstays in treating opioid addiction, and is a major strategy for HIV/AIDS prevention. Methadone has the longest duration of effect of any approved opioid analgesic. It is used in infants, children, and adults, and is administered by oral, intravenous and other parenteral routes. Methadone is on the World Health Organization List of Essential Medicines.Methadone was developed and approved long before the regulatory requirements for thorough pharmacokinetic characterizations and myriad in vitro and in vivo preclinical and clinical studies which are required today for drug approvals. Hence investigators, more than two decades ago, began to fill in the missing information. There was reaction phenotyping of methadone metabolism to identify responsible CYPs, and drug-drug interaction studies for both mechanistic discovery and practical clinical considerations. The ensuing evolution of data, concepts, and evidence regarding methadone disposition has been vast. Nevertheless however, initial concepts and quickly adopted early “common knowledge”, as well as practitioner guidelines and regulatory documents, which were later shown to be incorrect, have been remarkably resistant to change.