Polydrug abuse among opioid maintenance treatment patients is related to inadequate dose of maintenance treatment medicine
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Polydrug abuse among opioid maintenance treatment patients is related to inadequate dose of maintenance treatment medicine
BACKGROUND Polydrug abuse is a known problem among opioid-dependent patients receiving opioid maintenance treatment (OMT). However, improved laboratory diagnostics is required to reveal polydrug abuse in its current scope. Furthermore, there are few studies focusing on the relationship between polydrug abuse and adequacy of the dose of OMT medicine. This study aimed to evaluate the polydrug abu...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-017-1415-y