نتایج جستجو برای: methadone prison

تعداد نتایج: 12282  

Journal: :Addiction 2009
Jean-Paul Bernard Jørg Mørland Mette Krogh Hassan Zaré Khiabani

AIMS According to Norwegian guidelines, patients who are in opioid-assisted rehabilitation programmes are permitted to drive a motor vehicle provided that certain requirements are met. The purpose of this study was to investigate apprehended drivers who had methadone in their blood at the time of apprehension and, further, the relationship between blood methadone concentration and impairment as...

Journal: :CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2007
Evan Wood Julio S Montaner Kathy Li Lucy Barney Mark W Tyndall Thomas Kerr

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown elevated rates of health-related harms among Aboriginal people who use injection drugs such as heroin. Methadone maintenance therapy is one of the most effective interventions to address the harms of heroin injection. We assessed the rate of methadone use in a cohort of opioid injection drug users in Vancouver and investigated whether methadone use was ass...

2018
Nicholas Duvall

This article examines how a branch of medicine based within the criminal justice system responded to a society which by the 1970s and 1980s was increasingly critical of the prison system and medical authority. The Prison Medical Service, responsible for the health care of prisoners in England and Wales, was criticised by prison campaigners and doctors alike for being unethical, isolated, secret...

Journal: :The Medical journal of Australia 2000
O T Ayonrinde D T Bridge

Methadone is a potent synthetic opioid analgesic best known in Australia as maintenance therapy for narcotic addicts. Acceptance of methadone in cancer pain management is limited by a poor understanding of its pharmacokinetics and confusion about dosage. Many opioid conversion charts underestimate the potency of methadone, resulting in the risk of toxicity. Methadone is a valuable addition to t...

Journal: :British journal of anaesthesia 1990
C S Martin E M McGrady A Colquhoun J Thorburn

We performed a double-blind placebo-controlled study of the effects of extradural administration of methadone 5 mg or saline, followed by bupivacaine, in 42 women in early labour. Motor block and pain scores were significantly less in the methadone group. The requirement for bupivacaine also was reduced by methadone, but this was not statistically significant. There were no troublesome side eff...

Journal: :Irish journal of medical science 2001
M Ward J Barry

BACKGROUND Intravenous drug misuse, principally heroin, occurs primarily in the Greater Dublin area. Methadone maintenance treatment has been an important part of the response to opiate misuse in Dublin since 1992. AIMS To determine the number of opiate-related deaths in Dublin City and County during 1999, to establish the number of methadone-related deaths and determine the proportion of dea...

Journal: :Acta medica Indonesiana 2009
Erni Juwita Nelwan Aly Diana Reinout van Crevel Nisaa Nur Alam Bachti Alisjahbana Herdiman T Pohan Andre van der Ven Ilham Djaya

Around the world, HIV-prevalence rates among prisoners are high compared to the general population. This is due to overrepresentation of injecting drug users (IDUs) in prison and possible HIV-transmission inside prison. Limited health services in penitentiary institutes, stigma, policy issues, and budgetary constraints may hamper delivery of appropriate services for HIV in prison. Prisons may, ...

Journal: :Journal of clinical pharmacology 2016
Paul Glue Gavin Cape Donna Tunnicliff Michelle Lockhart Fred Lam Andrew Gray Noelyn Hung C Tak Hung Sarah Harland Jane Devane John Howes Holger Weis Lawrence Friedhoff

The aim of this study was to switch patients established on methadone opioid substitution therapy (OST) to morphine over 1 week. Subjects established on daily methadone OST (mean dose 60 mg/day) were switched to morphine slow-release capsules, dosed at 4× the previous total daily methadone dose, for 6 days, then given morphine syrup dosed q3h. All 27 subjects enrolled in this study completed th...

Journal: :iranian journal of psychiatry and behavioral sciences 0
mohammad-reza shiran psychiatry and behavioral sciences research center, faculty of medicine, mazandaran university of medical sciences, sari, iran rasa hosseinzadeh abolhassan hamidikenari mehran zarghami nargess lamsehchi mohammad-reza rafati

ôbjective: to investigate the pharmacokinetics (pk) and pk- pharmacodynamic (pd) relationship of methadone in a cohort of outpatients undergoing methadone maintenance treatment (mmt). methods: sixty male patients undergoing mmt with a mean ±sd methadone daily dosage of 58 ± 34 mg were enrolled in this study. â 5-ml blood sample was collected before the daily intake of methadone. âs a pd measure...

Journal: :Harm Reduction Journal 2007
Michael Varenbut David Teplin Jeff Daiter Barak Raz Andrew Worster Pasha Emadi-Konjin Nathan Frank Alan Konyer Iris Greenwald Melissa Snider-Adler

Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) is among the most widely studied treatments for opiate dependence with proven benefits for patients and society. When misused, however, methadone can also be lethal. The issue of methadone diversion is a major concern for all MMT programs. A potential source for such diversion is from those MMT patients who receive daily take home methadone doses. Using a r...

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