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

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.

Methadone Maintenance Treatment in British Columbia, 1996-2008

Cost-effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment Centers in Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Background: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is one of the greatest social health problems in many communities in the twenty-first century. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) could decrease HIV infection among injection drug users (IDU). The main aim of this paper was to determine the cost-effectiveness of the governmental MMT program to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) i...

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...