Maintenance Check-ups Following Treatment for Cannabis Dependence

Ethics for check-ups.

Sao Paulo Med J/Rev Paul Med 2002; 120(5):131. A very positive phenomenon is taking hold within the Brazilian medical scene: the idea that it is possible to get advance warning of diseases by detecting markers (biochemical, hormonal, immunological and anatomical) that would make it possible to alter the natural history of a disease. Such actions, called check-ups, screening or early detection, ...

Facilitators and barriers in treatment seeking for cannabis dependence.

BACKGROUND Relatively few cannabis dependent people seek treatment and little is known about determinants of treatment seeking. METHODS Treatment determinants were compared among 70 DSM-IV cannabis dependent patients and 241 non-treatment seeking DSM-IV cannabis dependent community subjects. In addition, perceived facilitators for treatment seeking were assessed in patients, whereas perceived...

Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Iran and Brief Psychological Treatments for Women: A Rehabilitation Approach in Methamphetamine Dependence

Objective Methamphetamine use in patients treated with methadone is a health problem in Iran that reduces the benefits of this treatment. This has been more reported by women than by men. Short-term psychological interventions are one of the major methods of rehabilitation to solve this problem. The current study aimed to explore the reasons for methadone patients for using these interventions ...

Comparing drug-related hospital morbidity following heroin dependence treatment with methadone maintenance or naltrexone implantation.

CONTEXT Most research on heroin dependence treatments assesses short-term changes in patients' self-reported drug use. To our knowledge, long-term sustainability of changes in patients' drug use and associated hospital morbidity posttreatment have not been studied. OBJECTIVES To evaluate drug-related hospital morbidity in heroin users at 6 months and 3 1/2 years after receiving naltrexone imp...

Commentary: GP 'check-ups' still of limited value.