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A Review of Recent Advances in Knowledge About Methadone Maintenance Treatment (2001)
The RAND Corporation’s objective analysis of worldwide methadone maintenance practice. This report summarizes the existing evidence on methadone maintenance treatment for opioid dependent persons, in order to provide a knowledge base for the development of practice guidelines development. |
Cost utility analysis of co-prescribed heroin compared with methadone maintenance treatment in heroin addicts in two randomised trials
This BMJ article uses the information gathered in two randomised trials in the Netherlands to assess whether the co-prescription of heroin is cost effective compared with treatment with methadone alone for chronic, treatment resistant heroin addicts. |
Drink and Drugs News
The magazine for the substance misuse field. |
Employing drug users
This e-book, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, examines the barriers drug users and ex users face when they seek employment. |
Feasibility of prescribing injectable heroin and methadone to opiate-dependent drug users: associated health gains and harm reductions
This study, by Nicky Metrebian, William Shanahan, Brian Wells and Gerry V Stimson, aims to assess the feasibility of offering the choice of prescribing injectable heroin (diamorphine) or injectable methadone to opiate-dependent injecting drug users and to assess whether there are health and social gains associated with prescribing injectable opiates. |
Findings
Drug and Alcohol Findings bridges the divide between UK-relevant research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions. The project aims to encapsulate the studies' findings, set them in context and to explore the implications for practice. |
Mama Coca
An on-line academic journal on complexity, conflict and drugs in the American region. |
Prescribing heroin: what is the evidence?
This page provides a summary of a report, by Gerry Stimson and Nicky Metrebian from the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour at Imperial College, which looks at the reasons for international interest in prescribing heroin. It critically examines the research, clinical, political and practical challenges to expanding heroin prescribing in the UK. |
Recovery Orientated Methadone Maintenance
Excellent paper by William White and Lisa Mojer-Torres on methadone maintenance and recovery. |
The First International Conference on Heroin Maintenance
This page links to speeches and presentations from the First International Conference on Heroin Maintenance. |
The Methadone Maintained Patient and the Treatment of Pain
This article, by J. Thomas Payte, Elizabeth Khuri, Herman Joseph and Joycelyn Woods, looks at opioid pain relief for methadone patients. |
The Narco News Bulletin
Reports on the drug war from Latin America with breaking news, analysis,
investigative journalism, translations of journalism from Mexico and beyond. |
The neuroscience of psychoactive substance use and dependence
This neuroscience report is the first attempt by the World Health Organisation to provide a comprehensive overview of the biological factors related to substance use and dependence by summarizing the vast amount of knowledge gained in the last 20-30 years. The report highlights the current state of knowledge of the mechanisms of action of different types of psychoactive substances, and explains how the use of these substances can lead to the development of dependence syndrome. |
UN Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC is mandated to assist Member States in their struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism. In the Millennium Declaration, Member States also resolved to intensify efforts to fight transnational crime in all its dimensions, to redouble the efforts to implement the commitment to counter the world drug problem and to take concerted action against international terrorism. |
Walter Ginter - Advocacy for Medication Assisited Recovery
William White interview with Walter Ginter about medication assisted recovery. |
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