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The Demedicalization of Methadone Maintenance
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1995The institution of methadone maintenance as a treatment modality for heroin addiction in the mid-1960s was part of the growing medicalization of social problems in the United States. The definition of deviance as "sickness" rather than "badness" set the stage for America's first harm-reduction strategy.
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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 ...
Daniel T. Barratt +4 more
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Methadone maintenance in pregnancy: A reappraisal
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1997The purpose of this study is to evaluate women receiving methadone maintenance during pregnancy.Thirty-two pregnancies in women receiving methadone maintenance were matched by gestational age to women with a positive urine screen for cocaine at delivery and to drug-free controls.
H L, Brown +5 more
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Plasma methadone monitoring with methadone maintenance treatment
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1994Substantial evidence exists to support the effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), particularly with regard to reductions in intravenous drug use (Schuster, 1991) and crime (Bell et al., 1992); and to its safety and cost effectiveness compared to other (drug-free) alternatives (Glass, 1993).
Kim Wolff, Alastair Hay
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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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Manifest and Latent Components in Methadone Maintenance: The Methadone Maintenance Game
Journal of Drug Education, 1975Community agencies may be analyzed along a continuum from major responsibility in community protection to major responsibility in individual client self-actualization. Many agencies however fall in the middle of this continuum, having blurred purposes.
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Psychoneuroendocrine effects of methadone maintenance
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 1989A variety of neuroendocrine and psychiatric dysfunctions have been demonstrated in humans maintained on opiates, but both have not previously been examined in the same population. We performed a series of neuroendocrine challenge tests in men participating in a methadone maintenance clinic and in normal controls.
Allen S. Levine +5 more
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Methadone Maintenance: A Review and Critique
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, 1976SummaryThe problem of heroin addiction and rehabilitation has caused considerable alarm in the past few years. The number of heroin addicts alone in the United States has been estimated at 300,000 (“The Heroin Plague: What Can Be Done”, 1971, p. 27).Methadone maintenance is one approach to this problem of treating the addict so that he can become a ...
David Peck, Wayne Beckett
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Methadone Maintenance During Pregnancy
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1973Early experience with a methadone maintenance program for pregnant addicts indicated that many of the women who were enrolled were able to stablize their life-styles, to receive regular prenatal care, to make homes for their infants, and to make regular follow-up visits for their children's care after discharge from the hospital.
Lois L. Neumann, Sanford N. Cohen
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1988
In Reply.— Drs Kell and Techman treat methadone maintenance patients in a private clinic with substantial involvement by physicians, who see the patients at least once per week and personally dispense medication. We applaud this degree of physician involvement and we agree that approaches using psychotherapy and self-help, as exemplified by Alcoholics
David M. Novick +2 more
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In Reply.— Drs Kell and Techman treat methadone maintenance patients in a private clinic with substantial involvement by physicians, who see the patients at least once per week and personally dispense medication. We applaud this degree of physician involvement and we agree that approaches using psychotherapy and self-help, as exemplified by Alcoholics
David M. Novick +2 more
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