The Role of Craving and Dual Disorders in Organizing Services for Heroin Addicts

Primary Presenter(s)

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  Angelo Maremmani, MD

  Psychiatrist
  Psychiatric Department, North-West Toscana Health Unit, Versilian Zone
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  Marc Auriacombe, MD

  Team Leader and Medical Director
  University of Bordeaux and CH Charles Perrens

Historical background, craving typology and psychopathology conditioning the natural history of heroin addiction.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the use of psychopharmacology with methadone in dual disorder heroin addicts.
• Identify the appropriate pharmacological combination for patients with affective disorders.
• Identify the pharmacological combination for patients with chronic psychosis.