Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence
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Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence.
BACKGROUND Methadone maintenance was the first widely used form of opioid replacement therapy developed to treat heroin dependence, and it remains the best-researched treatment for this problem. Despite the widespread use of methadone in maintenance treatment for opioid dependence in many countries, it is a controversial treatment whose effectiveness has been disputed. OBJECTIVES To evaluate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd002209.pub2