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More than 2,000 inmates receiving methadone treatment. [PDF]

, 2019
Figures contained in a new tender document issued by the Irish Prison Service (IPS) shows that 2,080 prisoners received drug treatment (methadone) last year, including 436 in Mountjoy and 210 in the adjoining Dochas women’s prison.
Baker, Noel
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Psychedelic‐assisted treatment for substance use disorder: A narrative systematic review

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims This is the first systematic review of the extant literature on all major psychedelic‐assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD), tobacco use disorder (TUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD). We aimed to summarise the evidence for efficacy of psychedelic‐assisted treatment for AUD, TUD, and SUD; to evaluate its
Theodore Piper, Francesca Small, Sam Brown, Michael Kelleher, Luke Mitcheson, James Rucker, Allan H. Young, John Marsden   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variability of plasma methadone concentration in opiate dependents receiving methadone: a personalised approach towards optimizing dose

, 2012
1. Introduction 1.1 Methadone and methadone maintenance therapy (MMT): An overview Methadone acts on the opioid receptors and produces many of the same effects of morphine and heroin.
Sim, Hann Liang, Mohamad, Nasir, Abu Bakar, Nor Hidayah, Tan, Soo Choon, Idrus, Ilya Irinaz, Mohamed Nazar, Nor Ilyani, Ismail, Rusli   +6 more
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Theorizing causality: A qualitative study of xylazine‐related wound diversity and perceived etiology among people who inject drugs

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Incidence and severity of opioid‐associated skin and soft‐tissue infections, often requiring intensive and costly medical care, have increased substantially since the emergence of xylazine in the US drug supply. Although progress has been made in clinical and harm reduction recommendations for treating xylazine‐related ...
Danielle German, Kelci Villarroel, Meredith Denney, Adrian Guta, Julie Evans, Jason Bienert, Alex Fidler, Kim Ashburn, Zach Kosinski, Becky L. Genberg   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methadone-trained GPs nearing 1,000 mark.

, 2010
Since the introduction of methadone regulation, the ICGP has trained 830 GPs at Level 1 and 61 GPs at Level 2. The number who have undertaken training is 968, but training is not yet completed for some of these.

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Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review

, 2013
Methadone has been used as a pharmacotherapy for the treatment of opiate dependence since the mid-1960s. Many studies examining the benefits of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) for opiate dependence have documented a significant reduction in both ...
Russell, Bruce R., Wang, Grace Y., Wouldes, Trecia A.   +2 more
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Healthcare utilization and mortality after overdose prevention site closure: A linked cohort analysis using segmented difference‐in‐differences time series

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Evidence regarding the impacts of supervised drug consumption services (SDC) remains mixed, and few evaluations have used individual‐level, linkable health data to examine service withdrawal. In September 2024, the Red Deer overdose prevention site (OPS) in Alberta, Canada, was scheduled for closure, with operations ceasing
Nathaniel Day, Kym Kaufmann, Daniel John Alexander Devoe, Vanja Grubac, Alessia DiMarzo, Haisa Osmanli, Vanessa Norton, Shelly Vik, Nickie Mathew, Robert Lawrence Tanguay, Anees Bahji   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Image7_PKA inhibition is a central step in D,L-methadone-induced ER Ca2+ release and subsequent apoptosis in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.JPEG

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a hematologic cancer that mostly affects children. It accounts for over a quarter of ALL pediatric cancers, causing most of the cancer death among children.
Ki-Young Lee (185268), Hamza Kamran (18433152), Jung Kwon Lee (15149122)   +2 more
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High temporal resolution monitoring of illicit drug consumption across England via wastewater analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To monitor community‐level consumption of 20 illicit drugs across urban areas of England using wastewater‐based epidemiology (WBE) surveillance at high temporal resolution. Design, setting, cases This study was conducted over a 12‐month period in 2022 sampling 24‐hour composite wastewater samples at 15 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs ...
Helena Rapp‐Wright, Keng Tiong Ng, Derryn Grant, William Francis, Margarita White, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Yuxing Liu, Konstantina Dimakopoulou, Sofia Zafeiratou, Dylan Wood, Chryshanthi Christy, Stav Friedman, Timothy W. Gant, Klea Katsouyanni, Leon P. Barron   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Withholding methadone from inmates is wrong

, 2018
$1.2 billion in taxpayer dollars will be spent on incarcerated individuals in the Commonwealth this year alone. Warren Ferguson, the board chair of the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health, believes that spending a portion of this amount on ...
Ferguson, Warren J.
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