Treatment satisfaction and quality of support in outpatient substitution treatment: opiate users’ experiences and perspectives [PDF]
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2014 AbstractAims: 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 studies have primarily focused on objective outcome indicators rather than on clients ...
Vanderplasschen, Wouter +3 more
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Commentary on Nolanet al. (2014): Opiate substitution treatment and hepatitis C virus prevention: building an evidence base? [PDF]
Addiction, 2014 Lisa Maher +2 more
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Barriers and facilitators to detoxification from opioid substitution treatment: A mixed-methods systematic review. [PDF]
AddictionAbstract Background and aims Despite the well‐documented benefits of opioid substitution treatment (OST) in treating opioid dependence (OD), many people diagnosed with OD desire to live a drug‐free life. The transition to abstinence involves detoxification: a gradual dose reduction of OST to zero milligrams.
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Prevalence of Respiratory Disorders during Sleep among Subjects of Methadone Maintenance Therapy Program [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2021 Background: Respiratory disorders during sleep are considered a health problem affecting the life quality. There is some evidence indicating the higher prevalence of apnea in substance-dependent patients.
Ali Talaei +3 more
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Benzodiazepine Use in Opioid Maintenance Treatment Programme: Risks and Clinical Outcomes
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2021 Introduction: The co-association of benzodiazepines and opioids is associated with an increased risk of overdose, death, and poorer psychosocial prognosis.
Catarina Oliveira +7 more
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Opiate substitution treatment and HIV transmission in people who inject drugs: systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
BMJ, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To quantify the effect of opiate substitution treatment in relation to HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective published and unpublished observational studies.
MacArthur GJ +7 more
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Over 1200 drugs-related deaths and 190,000 opiate-user-years of follow-up : relative risks by sex and age-group [PDF]
, 2010 Heroin users/injectors' risk of drugs-related death by sex and current age is weakly estimated both in individual cohorts of under 1000 clients, 5000 person-years or 50 drugs-related deaths and when using cross-sectional data.
Bird, Sheila M., Hutchinson, S.J.
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Hepatitis C identification and treatment in rural Pennsylvania, USA
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021 The opioid epidemic in the United States has led to increases in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection especially in rural communities. It is recommended that persons who inject drugs undergo screening and treatment.
Tuesdae Stainbrook +4 more
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French Experience with Buprenorphine : Do Physicians Follow the Guidelines? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Opiate dependence affects about 15,479,000 people worldwide. The effectiveness of opiate substitution treatments (OST) has been widely demonstrated. Buprenorphine plays a particular role in opiate dependence care provision in France.
Morgane Guillou Landreat +5 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2021 Individuals who use opioids have higher rates of hospitalization compared to the general population. Insufficiently treated withdrawal and pain are major factors contributing to high rates of self-initiated hospital discharges (also referred to as ...
Laura E. Labonté, Samantha Young
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