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Methadone Maintenance Treatment

International Journal of the Addictions, 1985
This 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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METHADONE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT

InPharma, 1976
TEN YEARS ago inThe Journal, we reported on the use of methadone hydrochloride to treat a small group of intractable heroin addicts. The encouraging results of this pilot experiment suggested that larger-scale maintenance programs might provide a treatment alternative for a significant number of heroin addicts. To some extent this expectation has been
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The Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment: An Overview

Drug and Alcohol Review, 1994
AbstractThis paper reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of methadone maintenance as used in the treatment of opioid dependence. Findings from randomized controlled trials and observational studies suggest that methadone maintenance reduces heroin use, crime, injection‐related risk behaviours and premature mortality among people dependent on ...
Wayne Hall, Jeff Ward, R P Mattick
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Methadone Maintenance for Treatment of Addiction

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
ABSTRACT 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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Methadone Maintenance Treatment-A Reply

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1977
In 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-Nicotine Interactions in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Patients

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2009
Smoking is highly prevalent (85%-98%) in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients. Methadone has been shown to increase cigarette smoking in a dose-dependent manner, whereas smoking/nicotine has been shown to increase methadone self-administration and reinforcing properties.
Alexander K, Elkader, Bruna, Brands, Peter, Selby, Beth A, Sproule   +3 more
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Issues of Transference in Methadone Maintenance Treatment

International Journal of the Addictions, 1985
Methadone maintenance treatment involves a great deal of governmental regulations and controls which have to be enforced by the clinician, thus having important transferential implications for therapy. This issue is explored on the basis of a case example, and recommendations are made to detach rule enforcement from therapy.
E R, Curet, J, Langrod, J, Page, J H, Lowinson   +3 more
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Methadone maintenance treatment: An update

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 1995
Available 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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Antidepressant Treatment in Methadone Maintenance Patients

Journal of Addictive Diseases, 1995
We review the controlled trials of antidepressant treatment in methadone patients. Several studies show antidepressant effects, but none demonstrate clear improvement in drug abuse. This is contrary to "self-medication" but rather suggests depression is either independent or substance induced.
E, Nunes, F, Quitkin, R, Brady, T, Post-Koenig   +3 more
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Knowledge and stigma regarding methadone maintenance treatment among personnel of methadone maintenance treatment and non-methadone maintenance treatment addiction facilities in Israel

Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2016
Stigma attached to methadone maintenance treatment is very common. The objective of the current article is to evaluate the presence of stigma and its relation to the extent of knowledge about methadone maintenance treatment. The authors conducted a survey among methadone maintenance treatment and non-methadone maintenance treatment addiction therapists
Lia, Shidlansik, Miriam, Adelson, Einat, Peles   +2 more
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