Background: Methadone Maintenance Treatment is a useful method for opioid dependents, which results in harm reduction and increased quality of life in opioid dependents. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in addicts is higher than in the general population which can interfere with the course and treatment of substance dependents and decrease the efficacy of treatment. Methods: This descrip...

Dr. Eamon Keenan The previous speaker has given a reasoned a balanced argument in favour of the use of methadone as an effective intervention in the treatment of opiate dependence syndrome. One interesting point to emerge and one that highlights the emotive nature of methadone treatment, is his justification of methadone maintenance on utilitarian moral grounds. That a medicinal product, with p...

BACKGROUND Opioid dependence increases risk of premature mortality. Opioid substitution therapy with methadone or buprenorphine reduces mortality risk, especially for drug-related overdose. Clinical guidelines recommend methadone as the first line of opioid substitution therapy. We aimed to test whether buprenorphine treatment has a lower mortality risk than does methadone treatment by comparin...

Background: Needle sharing and sexual contacts Taiwanese Department of Health (DOH) among injecting drug users (IDUs) have become laden with HIV and HIV related health problems, representing a serious public health threat all over the world. For reduce the sharing of needle, Taiwanese public health prompted methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) to reduce needle sharing and curb the transmission...

Morgan et al. report a number of important findings, but of greatest interest to providers of drug treatment services is probably that methadone-related deaths dramatically declined from 1997 onwards. Deaths per thousand methadone treatment patient-years varied little between 12 and 13/year between 1993 and 1997 but then plunged by three-quarters between 1997 and 2004 to a low of 3.1 deaths per...

BACKGROUND Methadone Maintenance Treatment is a useful method for opioid dependents, which results in harm reduction and increased quality of life in opioid dependents. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in addicts is higher than in the general population which can interfere with the course and treatment of substance dependents and decrease the efficacy of treatment. METHODS This descrip...

BACKGROUND Although methadone maintenance is effective in reducing injection drug use, needle sharing, and the overall mortality associated with opiate abuse, many health plans offer little or no access to methadone, and many methadone providers do not comply with treatment guidelines regarding dose, duration of treatment, or provision of ancillary services. Moral and political judgments have h...

methadone is a generic name and a mixture of 1mg/1ml of it is prescribed outside iran and 5mg/1ml of it inside iran, as substitute treatment for narcotics. this medicine is well tolerated by the patients. its various forms make no difference in serum level among patients. side effects of methadone is well recognized and according to the literature, there is no relationship between its side effe...

Background & Aims: Methadone maintenance therapy is one of the treatment choices for opiate users. Understanding opiate dependants’ experiences of their treatment period is important for continuing the treatment with methadone and assessing their experiences may help to revise the standards of methadone centers and thus to improve the quality of treatment. This study aims to describe the struct...