Methadone Maintenance Treatment in British Columbia, 1996-2008

Methadone Maintenance Treatment in British Columbia, 1996-2008

This paper is submitted to the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport as part of a project to review methadone maintenance treatment in British Columbia. The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the authors of the background papers on which this report depends or the position of the Ministry.

British Columbia Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program A Qualitative Systems Review – Summary Report

Original Contribution Proportional Hazards Frailty Models for Recurrent Methadone Maintenance Treatment

The authors’ objective in this study was to identify determinants of time to discontinuation of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) across multiple treatment episodes. Population-level data on drug dispensations for all patients receiving methadone for opioid maintenance throughout the tenure of the British Columbia, Canada, methadone program to date (1996–2007) were extracted from an adminis...

Client retention in the British Columbia Methadone Program, 1996-1999.

BACKGROUND Methadone treatment for heroin addiction has been available for 40 years, but there is relatively little research on the effectiveness of Canadian programs. This paper describes one-year retention among the client cohorts entering the British Columbia Methadone Program during expansion between 1996 and 1999, and examines some factors previously shown to influence retention. METHODS...

Patient perspectives of methadone formulation change in British Columbia, Canada: outcomes of a provincial survey

BACKGROUND In British Columbia, Canada, methadone maintenance treatment formulation transitioned from the oral liquid compound Tang™-flavoured methadone to the ten-times more concentrated cherry-flavoured Methadose™ in February 2014. We quantitatively describe perceptions and reported consequences among a sample of patients on methadone maintenance treatment following this transition. METHODS...