Methadone treatment for opiate addicts
- 3 August 1996
- Vol. 313 (7052) , 245-246
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.313.7052.245
Abstract
A recent review in the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience confirmed that maintenance treatment using methadone not only reduces illicit use of opiates and criminal actions but also lowers the risk of HIV infection and its associated mortality and improves social rehabilitation.2 The same enthusiasm for methadone is apparent in the United States, where the Institute of Medicine recently published a review that endorsed the effectiveness of this type of maintenance treatment3—a verdict in line with other …Keywords
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