The cost of concordance with opiate substitution treatment guidelines [PDF]
The Multisite Opiate Substitution Treatment study compared four opioid substitution programs that were highly concordant with clinical practice guidelines to four programs that were less concordant. Program staff were surveyed, and consenting new patients from highly concordant (n = 164) and less-concordant programs (n = 91) were assessed.
Paul G. Barnett +2 more
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Satisfaction with Life among Recipients of Opiate Substitution Treatment
Paul Istasy +5 more
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The newer Opioid Agonist Treatment with lower substitutive opiate doses is associated with better toxicology outcome than the older Harm Reduction Treatment [PDF]
Background: Charge-free heroin use disorder treatment in Italy follows two main approaches, i.e., harm reduction treatment (HRT) strategy in community low-threshold facilities for drug addiction and opioid agonist treatment (OAT) in high-threshold ...
Jacopo V. Bizzarri +8 more
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P-53 * CRIMINAL HISTORY AND OUTCOME OF OPIATE SUBSTITUTIONS TREATMENT IN CANADIAN METHADONE AND SUBOXONE PATIENTS [PDF]
Introduction. This study examines outcomes of urine tests in methadone and in suboxone patients and differences in their criminal history. Method. Criminal history data and 10 urine tests for benzodiazepines, cocaine, opiates, and oxycodone were recorded for each of 103 Canadian patients (67 men, 36 women) undergoing opiate substitution treatment: 75 ...
Gamal Sadek +3 more
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Mobile telephone contingency management to encourage adherence to supervised medication among individuals most at risk of non-adherence to opioid agonist treatment: a study protocol for a feasibility study (TIES2) [PDF]
Background Supervision of opioid agonist treatment (OAT) ensures that individuals take their correct daily dose to minimise withdrawal and craving, safeguard against diversion and overdose, and receive optimal benefit from OAT. There is an urgent need to
Nicola Metrebian +7 more
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La méthadone et la buprénorphine sont les deux traitements de substitution des opiacés autorisés en France depuis la fin des années 1990. Plus récemment, certains pays africains, comme le Sénégal, ont mis en place une nouvelle politique de santé axée sur la réduction des risques, en encourageant le recours aux traitements de substitution des opiacés ...
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Emergence of opiate substitution treatment in general practice
In the nineteen nineties, the drug addiction treatment world took a change of direction. Until then "drug addiction" was confined to specialised approach, which treated it as the symptom of a disturbance inherent in the individual, psychological in origin.
Saïd Megherbi
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Characteristics of women on opioid substitution therapy in primary healthcare in Tshwane (South Africa): a retrospective observational study [PDF]
Background: Women who use drugs face specific challenges compared with men such as higher rates of HIV infection, unsafe injecting practices, and intimate partner violence (IPV).
Daniela S Goeieman +3 more
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Effects of a Two-Month Exercise Training Program on Concurrent Non-Opiate Substance Use in Opioid-Dependent Patients during Substitution Treatment [PDF]
Background: This randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the effects of a two-month exercise intervention on the concurrent non-opiate substance use (alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, and benzodiazepines) in opioid users during their medication treatment.
Alexandros Psarianos +4 more
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Socio-demographic and clinical profile of opoid users [PDF]
Introduction Opioid use disorder is a pattern of problematic opioid use, leading to impaired functioning or clinically significant suffering. Morocco, a pioneer in the Arab world in the field of opiate substitution, is no exception to this rule, and has
Z. Bencharfa +3 more
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