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 ...
Tomislav Rukavina +2 more
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Psychosocial Interventions in Opiate Substitution Treatment Services: Does the Evidence Provide a Case for Optimism or Nihilism? [PDF]
Addiction, 2017 Abstract Background and Aims Clinical guidelines from around the world recommend the delivery of psychosocial interventions as part of routine care in opiate substitution treatment (OST) programmes.
Ed Day, Luke Mitcheson
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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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Outcome of heroin-dependent adolescents presenting for opiate substitution treatment [PDF]
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2012 Because the outcome of methadone and buprenorphine substitution treatment in adolescents is unclear, we completed a retrospective cohort study of 100 consecutive heroin-dependent adolescents who sought these treatments over an 8-year recruitment period. The participants' average age was 16.6 years, and 54 were female. Half of the patient group remained
Smyth, Bobby P +2 more
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A study of positive and negative factors associated with tapering off methadone maintenance treatment [PDF]
Indian Journal of PsychiatryBackground and Aim: Evidence on factors associated with successful methadone tapering in India is limited. This study aims to identify positive and negative factors associated with successful tapering of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT).
Kishor Kumar +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 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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Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, 2014 Introduction: Substitution treatment is recommended by the WHO as an effective form of curbing and abstaining from opiate use and improvement of psychosocial functioning of drug addicted persons.
Magdalena Nalaskowska +1 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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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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A National Study of the Retention of Irish Opiate Users in Methadone Substitution Treatment [PDF]
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2012 Retention in treatment is a key indicator of methadone treatment success. The study aims to identify factors that are associated with retention.To determine retention in treatment at 12 months for Irish opiate users in methadone substitution treatment and to indicate factors that increase the likelihood of retention.National cohort study of randomly ...
Mullen, Louise +6 more
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