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Social and drug-taking behaviour of 'maintained' opiate addicts
1Drug Dependence Clinical Research & Treatment Unit, Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals, London, United Kingdom.
British Journal of Addiction
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
The roles of the prescribing of maintenance methadone and prescribing injectable drugs in the management of opiate addicts have become subjects of active debate since the advent of HIV. Data are presented on the social circumstances and drug-taking behaviour of 26 opiate addicts who had been receiving maintenance methadone (24 of whom had been receiving at least part of the prescription as injectible methadone ampoules.