From the reviews:
The authors do an excellent job of providing insight into the background of the many factors related to opioid receptor antagonists. Overall, this work is a well written and interesting text and would be a very useful addition to the personal libraries of those medicinal chemists with a research interest in the modulation of the opioid receptor system. (Thomas E. Prisinzano, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 53 (2), March, 2010)
This book is focused on the therapeutic uses of opioid antagonists ranging from classical opioid antagonists to novel chemical entities. In any therapeutic field examined, the aim of book as outlined by the titleFrom Bench to Clinicis achieved. The clinical applications of opioid antagonists are extensively discussed in almost all chapters of this book . In conclusion, this book gives an interesting analysis of the different fields of knowledge and research concerning therapeutic uses of opioid antagonists in recent years. (Agostino Marrazzo, ChemBioChem, Vol. 5, 2010)