Comparison of the Effect of High and Low Doses of Methadone on Treatment Outcome
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 12 (8) , 993-1005
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826087709027267
Abstract
The relationship between methadone dosage and treatment outcome was studied for 2 yr. For discharged patients, higher doses of methadone were significantly related to successful treatment and lower doses to treatment failure. Based on these findings, the literature review and clinical experience, a theoretical formulation was offered to provide a rationale for methadone maintenance treatment. The tenability of the formulation is readily testable by clinical research.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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