Commune Health Workers' Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Knowledge and Perceived Difficulties Providing Decentralized MMT Services in Vietnam. [PDF]
BackgroundWith the initial establishment of countrywide methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) system, Vietnam is in the process of expanding and decentralizing the MMT program to community-based healthcare settings.ObjectiveThe study aimed to measure the ...
Li, Li, Lin, Chunqing, Tuan, Nguyen Anh
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AIMS To compare long-term outcomes among participants randomized to buprenorphine or methadone. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Follow-up was conducted in 2011-14 of 1080 opioid-dependent participants entering seven opioid treatment programs in the ...
Y. Hser+14 more
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Itraconazole-induced Torsade de Pointes in a patient receiving methadone substitution therapy [PDF]
Issues. Methadone, a pharmacological agent used to treat heroin dependence is relatively safe, but may cause cardiac arrhythmias in the concurrent presence of other risk factors. Approach and Key Findings.
Narayanan, S.+2 more
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Methadone ameliorates multiple-low-dose streptozotocin-induced type 1 diabetes in mice [PDF]
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of pancreatic islets and destruction of β cells by the immune system. Opioids have been shown to modulate a number of immune functions, including T helper 1 (Th1) and T helper 2 ...
امیرشاهرخی, کیوان+4 more
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The experience of long-term opiate maintenance treatment and reported barriers to recovery: A qualitative systematic review [PDF]
Background/Aim: To inform understanding of the experience of long-term opiate maintenance and identify barriers to recovery. Methods: A qualitative systematic review.
Annie Blyth+31 more
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Methadone in Primary Care - One Small Step for Congress, One Giant Leap for Addiction Treatment.
Methadone in Primary Care Methadone clinics serve the needs of some patients well, but for others, the need to obtain medication daily at one fixed site can be too burdensome.
J. Samet, M. Botticelli, M. Bharel
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Importance Although opioids are used to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), the best pharmacologic treatment has not been established. Objective To compare the safety and efficacy of methadone and morphine in NAS.
J. Davis+13 more
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EudraVigilance insights: Suspected adverse drug reactions in infants through breastfeeding
Aims We aimed to describe suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in infants resulting from medications transmitted through mothers' milk, as reported to the European ADR database, EudraVigilance. The research sought to understand the frequency, seriousness and nature of these ADRs to assess potential risks associated with maternal medication use ...
Ida M. Heerfordt+7 more
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The becoming-methadone-body: on the onto-politics of health intervention translations.
In this paper, we reflect on health intervention translations as matters of their implementation practices. Our case is methadone treatment, an intervention promoted globally for treating opioid dependence and preventing HIV among people who inject drugs.
T. Rhodes+3 more
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In forensic bioanalysis, often multianalyte approaches are used given their increased effectiveness but can be difficult to develop and maintain in the laboratory, for example, in terms of calibrator solution preparation. A fast, simple, and robust liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) method for the quantification of 82 classic ...
Andrea E. Steuer+3 more
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