AIDS and drug abuse treatment

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This review summarizes some recently published articles on methadone maintenance treatment for intravenous heroin users and the role that these programs can play in helping to reduce the spread of HIV among intravenous drug users. Providing an adequate dose of methadone appears to be vital, as is the duration of treatment and organization of the program. Programs that prescribe insufficient doses of methadone may be able to attract a large number of the most problematic users, which gives the opportunity of providing medical and social care to help stabilize the life of these addicts. However, these programs are unlikely to stop heroin use and are, therefore, also unlikely to be effective in the prevention of HIV infection.

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