Martinez-Raga, Jose; Gonzalez-Saiz, Francisco; Oñate, … - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 3, pp. 1-9
Background: Opioid addiction is a worldwide problem. Agonist opioid treatment (AOT) is the most widespread and frequent pharmacotherapeutic approach. Methadone has been the most widely used AOT, but buprenorphine, a partial kappa-opiod agonist and a my-opiod antagonist, is fast gaining...