Effects of Methadone on Liver Enzymes in Patients Undergoing Methadone Maintenance Treatment [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2012 Background: Methadone is currently the most frequently used substance in the treatment of short-term and particularly long-term opiate dependence. Patients' beliefs about the adverse effects of methadone on function of organs, especially liver, have ...
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Literature on Methadone Maintenance Clinics
International Journal of the Addictions, 1988 The literature on the impact of methadone maintenance clinics is presented and it is pointed out that only a very tentative evaluation can be made. The authors themselves, however, are opposed to these clinics based on the balance of the evidence available.
Liappas, J.A., Jenner, F.A., Vicente, B.
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Better retention of Malaysian opiate dependents treated with high dose methadone in methadone maintenance therapy [PDF]
, 2010 Nasir Mohamad +4 more
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Involuntary Termination from Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Unknown Phantoms, Red Flags, and Unexplained Medical Data [PDF]
, 2018 In the United States, all treatment programs receiving public funds are required by law to regularly submit admission and discharge data, inclusive of the forced/involuntary termination or administrative discharge of clients, to their local state ...
Williams, Izaak L
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Ethanol reversal of tolerance to the respiratory depressant effects of morphine [PDF]
, 2015 Opioids are the most common drugs associated with unintentional drug overdose. Death results from respiratory depression. Prolonged use of opioids results in the development of tolerance but the degree of tolerance is thought to vary between different ...
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Perceived barriers to methadone maintenance treatment among Iranian opioid users
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 Background Opioid use is a severe problem in Iran. Despite methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs being one of the most important treatment strategies for reducing individual and public harms associated with opioid use, a large proportion of ...
Maryam Khazaee-Pool +5 more
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Predictors of time to relapse in amphetamine-type substance users in the matrix treatment program in Iran : a Cox proportional hazard model application [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The aim of this study was to determine which predictors influence the risk of relapse among a cohort of amphetamine-type substance (ATS) users in Iran.
Moeeni, Maryam +5 more
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Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, 2012 Daniel T Barratt1, Janet K Coller1, Richard Hallinan2, Andrew Byrne2, Jason M White1, David JR Foster3, Andrew A Somogyi1,41Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia; 2The Byrne Surgery ...
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Opiate Dependents’ Experiences of the Therapeutic Relationship in Methadone Centers; A Qualitative Study [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2010 Background: Methadone maintenance therapy is a treatment of choice for opiate addiction. Understanding opiate dependents’ experiences of patients' treatment is a key to continue the treatment and can provide help to revise the standards of ...
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Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It [PDF]
, 2019 : Opioids and Child Welfare Across the country, placements in foster care are rising. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that 273,539 children in the U.S. entered foster care.
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