Aggression towards clinicians within Opiate Substitution Treatment (OST) services: A survey of service providers [PDF]
Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022 Background: High levels of aggression towards staff in healthcare settings have been reported. It seems likely that workers in Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) would be at increased risk of adverse events and their consequences.
Christopher K. Gale +3 more
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Survival and cessation in injecting drug users: prospective observational study of outcomes and effect of opiate substitution treatment. [PDF]
BMJ, 2010 Objectives To examine survival and long term cessation of injecting in a cohort of drug users and to assess the influence of opiate substitution treatment on these ...
Kimber J +6 more
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The impact of opiate substitution treatment on mortality risk in drug addicts: a natural experiment study [PDF]
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2019 Background: Opiate substitution treatment (OST) is the main treatment for people addicted to heroin and other opioid drugs. However, there is limited information on how the delivery of this treatment affects mortality risk. Objectives: To investigate the
Colin D Steer +10 more
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Structural barriers in the context of opiate substitution treatment in Germany--a survey among physicians in primary care. [PDF]
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy, 2013 Opiate substitution treatment (OST) is the most widely used treatment for opioid dependence in Germany with substantial long-term benefits for the patient and for society. Due to lessened restrictive admission criteria, the number of registered OST patients in Germany has increased continuously in the recent years, whereas the number of physicians ...
Schulte B +6 more
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A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of an adjunct brief social network intervention in opiate substitution treatment services [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background Approximately 3% of people receiving opioid substitution therapy (OST) in the UK manage to achieve abstinence from prescribed and illicit drugs within three years of commencing treatment.
Ed Day +12 more
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Risk of death during and after opiate substitution treatment in primary care: prospective observational study in UK General Practice Research Database. [PDF]
BMJ, 2010 Objective To investigate the effect of opiate substitution treatment at the beginning and end of treatment and according to duration of ...
Cornish R +4 more
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Treatment satisfaction and quality of support in outpatient substitution treatment: opiate users' experiences and perspectives [PDF]
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2014 Aims: Patient-reported outcomes have become an important source of information to guide service provision. Although opiate substitution treatment (OST) is an evidence-based and widely available intervention for opiate dependent individuals, evaluation ...
De Maeyer, Jessica +3 more
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Personality dysfunction in opiate addicts on opioid substitution treatment and the risk of HCV infection [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundImpulsivity, affective instability, and neglect of oneself and other people's safety as symptoms of personality dysfunction are associated with risky behaviors regarding the transmission of infectious diseases either sexually or by intravenous ...
Siniša Skočibušić +6 more
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Recidivism with opiate addicted patients on buprenorphine substitution treatment: Case report [PDF]
Hospital Pharmacology, 2017 Introduction: Opiate dependence is a serious, chronic and recurrent psychiatric disorder, whose prevalence reach epidemic proportions. This also contributes to a significant increase in mortality, associated with overdose with opiates, as well as the ...
Crnić Katarina B. +1 more
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On drug treatment and social control: Russian narcology's great leap backwards [PDF]
Harm Reduction Journal, 2008 The medical discipline of narcology in Russia is a subspecialty of psychiatry from the Soviet era and it is given warrant to define the scope of health activities with regard to alcohol and other drug use, drug users, and related problems.
Drucker Ernest, Elovich Richard
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