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Methadone Maintenance Treatment
International Journal of the Addictions, 1985This paper reviews the world literature on methadone. Methadone has been used in hundreds of thousands of patients, in disparate social, economic, cultural, and geographic situations; it has been evaluated in scores of studies. The large majority of evaluations demonstrate that opioid use, criminality, and general health status are affected positively ...
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Pharmacogenomics of Methadone Maintenance Treatment
Pharmacogenomics, 2014Methadone is the major opioid substitution therapy for opioid dependence. Dosage is highly variable and is often controlled by the patient and prescriber according to local and national policy and guidelines. Nevertheless many genetic factors have been investigated including those affecting its metabolism (CYP2B6-consistent results), efflux transport ...
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Medical and Maintenance Treatments for Vitiligo
Dermatologic Clinics, 2017Medical treatments alone, or in combination with phototherapy, are key approaches for treating nonsegmental vitiligo and, to a lesser extent, segmental vitiligo. The treatments are useful for halting disease progression and have been proven effective for inducing repigmentation and decreasing risk of relapses.
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Maintenance treatment for schizophrenia with quetiapine
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 2004AbstractWith the majority of current information being derived from short‐term clinical trials, the impact of atypical antipsychotics during maintenance treatment of schizophrenia is of considerable interest, although only limited data are available at present. The present report is an analysis of data that are available up to 156 weeks after the start
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Methadone Maintenance for Treatment of Addiction
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971ABSTRACT To the Editor.— I disagree with the Goldstein and Brown (214:311-315, 1970) opinion that it is "obvious... that methadone maintenance will now be adopted widely as the appropriate medical therapy for this condition." It is not all that clear to me.If drug dependency, like the top of an iceberg, is only a symptom of a personality in distress ...
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Monitoring in Methadone Maintenance Treatment
International Journal of the Addictions, 1995Weekly preannounced and unannounced urine testing was compared in a counterbalanced design with two random samples of clients (n = 74) from a methadone maintenance program. Results indicated no significant differences in the detected rate of positive specimens for the two types of testing.
J G, Baker, J B, Rounds, C A, Carson
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Maintenance Dosage as a Critical Factor in Methadone Maintenance Treatment*
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, 1977Abstract This study concentrates on methadone dosage as a critical factor influencing abuse of other psychoactive drugs (including alcohol) by patients maintained on methadone. The study population were patients who remained on methadone for at least two years. The effects of dosage level on a group of 46 patients
I, Siassi, B P, Angle, D C, Alston
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Maintenance treatment is not rocket science
BMJ, 2013Luty is unduly pessimistic about long term abstinence after opioid maintenance treatment.1 About 4% of addicted people become abstinent each year, regardless of treatment.2 By 10 years, over a third are abstinent. The remainder are mostly on maintenance treatment, a small, efficient part of any health system, which often needs little more than an …
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment-A Reply
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1977In 1965, Dole and Nyswander published the results of their initial experiences with using the drug methadone as a maintenance treatment for chronic heroin addicts [1]. The results were very encouraging and set off a tide of both medical and public expectations as to the ability to successfully treat what had been seen as an almost untreatable problem ...
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Methadone maintenance treatment: An update
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 1995Available data (this review includes old major articles and recent articles) show that, although results are heterogeneous, methadone maintenance treatments (MMTs) have a real efficiency not only to reduce illicit opiate abuse (50-80% of patients under MMT did not use heroin in the preceding month) but also to reduce criminality, HIV risks and ...
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