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Survey of a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1970Four interrelated studies of heroin addicts applying to a methadone maintenance program elicited data on the "typical" patient admitted to the program, a comparison between addicts who were admitted and those who were not accepted to it, and variables associated with discharge from the program as well as those associated with continued drug use.
M E, Perkins, H I, Bloch
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The trajectory of methadone maintenance treatment in Nepal
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2013There are about 28,500 people who inject drugs (PWID) in Nepal and HIV prevalence among this group is high. Nepal introduced harm reduction services for PWID much earlier than other countries in South Asia. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) was first introduced in Nepal in 1994. This initial small scale MMT programme was closed in 2002 but reopened
Atul, Ambekar +4 more
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A psychoeducational approach to methadone maintenance treatment
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 1989Methadone maintenance has become the treatment of choice for heroin addiction because of its beneficial effects on illicit opiate use and criminality. Yet methadone maintenance falls short in a variety of ways; methadone clients continue to use drugs, experience high rates of psychopathology and alcoholism, and fail to become employed and integrated ...
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment: A Primer for Physicians
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1991The doctor-patient interaction in the methadone maintenance treatment clinic is qualitatively different from general medical settings. The patient presents with a specific request for treatment of opioid dependence, most often having already selected the methadone treatment modality, and the initial contact is centered around obtaining methadone ...
J, Martin, J T, Payte, J E, Zweben
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Quality Improvement for Methadone Maintenance Treatment
Substance Use & Misuse, 2000Negative community attitudes toward heroin addicts and toward methadone treatment are the major obstacles to providing good treatment. Negative attitudes find expression in inappropriate and constricting regulation of treatment, and in inadequate resources to support programs. They contribute to the ambivalence of patients in treatment.
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Treatment predictors of tenure in methadone maintenance
Journal of Substance Abuse, 1991Tenure in methadone maintenance treatment was analyzed in terms of treatment process factors using a survival curve regression analysis. The treatment process framework included client variables at entry, program characteristics, treatment events, and client attitudes and satisfaction.
G W, Joe, D D, Simpson, R L, Hubbard
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Disciplining the ‘Addict’
Health and History, 2011This article examines key aims, objectives, technologies, strategies, and procedures utilised in Australian methadone maintenance programs over the past thirty years. An examination of the major policy documents reveal that, in addition to medico-health concerns, methadone programs have been strategically deployed to manage specific sociopolitical ...
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Maintenance Dosage as a Critical Factor in Methadone Maintenance Treatment*
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, 1977AbstractThis study concentrates on methadone dosage as a critical factor influencing abuse of other psychoactive drugs (including alcohol) by patients maintained on methadone. The study population were patients who remained on methadone for at least two years. The effects of dosage level on a group of 46 patients (low dosage n=27, ×= 48.32; high dosage
I, Siassi, B P, Angle, D C, Alston
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment Versus Methadone Maintenance Treatment Plus Auricular Acupuncture
Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 2013This study intended to (1) describe the baseline patient satisfaction level and preferred coping strategies and (2) assess patient satisfaction and coping mechanisms pre- and postintervention. Patients on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Terengganu, Malaysia, were randomized into either MMT or MMT plus auricular acupuncture (MMT + AA) groups ...
Pei Lin, Lua +2 more
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Maintenance Methadone Treatment of drug Dependency
Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 1972An assessment is presented of a treatment program for narcotics dependency which involves the daily oral administration of methadone to act as a blocking agent by virtue of tolerance to all opiates. In every parameter, except holding a job, there was appreciable overall improvement from the time of admission to the methadone program, to its termination,
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