Cost of provision of opioid substitution therapy provision in Tijuana, Mexico
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Provision of opioid substitution therapy services in Australian pharmacies.
Opioid dependence, despite being the subject of significant public funding, remains a costly burden to Australian society in human and economic terms. The most cost-effective public health strategy for managing opioid dependence is opioid substitution therapy (OST), primarily through the use of methadone or buprenorphine. Supervised dispensing of OST from specialist clinics and community pharma...
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OBJECTIVE To assess whether patients receiving opioid substitution therapy (OST) in general practice cause other patients sufficient distress to change practices--a perceived barrier that prevents general practitioners from prescribing OST. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey of consecutive adult patients in the waiting rooms of a network of research ...
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INTRODUCTION Few general practitioners (GP) prescribe opioid substitution therapy. Our aim was to analyse their previously identified motivating factors by describing their frequency and demographic associations. METHODS An anonymous, cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey on opioid prescribing in pain and dependency was distributed across five New South Wales Divisions of GPs. Questions ...
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Methadone is widely being used for opioid substitution therapy. However, the administration of methadone to opioid dependent individual is frequently accompanied by withdrawal syndrome and chemical dependency develops. Other than that, it is also difficult to retain patients in the treatment programme making their retention rates are decreasing over time. This article is written to higlights th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Harm Reduction Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1477-7517
DOI: 10.1186/s12954-018-0234-x