Widening the perspective on opioid substitution treatment

Substitution treatment for opioid addicts in Germany

BACKGROUND After a long and controversial debate methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) was first introduced in Germany in 1987. The number of patients in MMT--first low because of strict admission criteria--increased considerably since the 1990s up to some 65,000 at the end of 2006. In Germany each general practitioner (GP), who has completed an additional training in addiction medicine, is all...

Widening the Configuration Management Perspective

A metainformatics symposium provides an excellent opportunity to explore, discuss and investigate how configuration management techniques and principles can be expanded into new fields and how it itself can incorporate techniques from other fields. 1. Software Configuration Management For a long time Software Configuration Management (SCM) has been considered an important part of software engin...

Long term substitution treatment (maintenance treatment) of opioid dependent persons

HEALTH POLITICAL BACKGROUND Methadone substitution treatment in Germany is introduced in 1988 in the framework of a scientific pilot study in North Rhein Westphalia. Recent statistics show that by now a broad offer of substitution treatment exists. From 1 June 2002 to 31 December 2003 113,000 substitution treatments have been recorded as being started of which around 56,000 have been recorded a...

Mitigating the risk of HIV infection with opioid substitution treatment.

Challenges of addiction treatment with opioid agonist drugs from the perspective of stakeholders: A qualitative study

Introduction: Drug use disorder and dependency is one of the most challenging problems in the world. One of the most common therapy for opioid use disorder is agonist maintenance therapy especially methadone maintenance treatment and buprenorphine maintenance treatment. The study aimed to investigate the challenges of providing agonist therapy from the perspective of stakeholders. Materials and...