Background: Studies have shown that methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is effective in improving the client’s quality of life and physical health. This study aimed to describe the nature and structure of drug dependents' experiences and the physical effects of MMT Methods: The present study is a qualitative and a phenomenology study on 32 clients referred to methadone clinics in the city of ...

Background: Opioid use disorder is a major concern to public health, and opioid maintenance treatment onmethadone or buprenorphine is a widely used approach. On the other hand, in recent years, there has beenmore regards for the use of opium tincture for detoxification and maintenance treatment of opioiddependence in certain parts...

background: chronic infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is increasingly recognized as a major global health problem. illicit injection drug use is an important risk factor for the rising hepatitis c virus (hcv) prevalence in ir iran. objectives: the objective of this study was to determine the long-term effectiveness (total quality adjusted life years (qalys) gained) of methadone maintenance...

background : to identify correlates related to retention time of a cohort study of the opioid-dependent patients participating in the methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) program offered by a major addiction treatment clinic in tehran, iran between april 2007 and march 2011. methods : several parametric survival models assuming weibull, log-normal and log-logistic distributions were compared t...

Methadone maintenance treatment has been shown in many studies to reduce mortality and morbidity among heroin users. However, there has been concern that widespread methadone prescribing will lead conversely to an increase in methadone-related deaths. This study in Sheffield shows no increase in methadone-related mortality over a two-year period, during which 400 untreated patients were recruit...

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...

OBJECTIVES This study determined the cost-effectiveness of expanding methadone maintenance treatment for heroin addiction, particularly its effect on the HIV epidemic. METHODS We developed a dynamic epidemic model to study the effects of increased methadone maintenance capacity on health care costs and survival, measured as quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). We considered communities with H...

The majority of opiate-dependent clients entering substance abuse treatment are referred to "drug-free" (non-methadone) modalities. Given the known challenges of treating these clients in drug-free settings relative to the documented effectiveness of methadone maintenance, these analyses investigate the availability of various clinical and wraparound services for this population among a US samp...

Methadone maintenance treatment of opioid addiction was developed in 1965 and implemented in the United States as a form of opioid agonist treatment. In the 1970s, a system of federal regulation was imposed in response to reports of diversion of methadone into illicit channels. In 1993, the US government gave approval to LAAM as a second maintenance medication, and, in 2002, buprenorphine, a pa...