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Methadone

"Methadone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A synthetic opioid that is used as the hydrochloride. It is an opioid analgesic that is primarily a mu-opioid agonist. It has actions and uses similar to those of MORPHINE. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p1082-3)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Methadone" by people in this website by year, and whether "Methadone" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 36 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2017 and 2022
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