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[Methadone maintenance treatment]
H Lôo1, J Dugarin, P Rémi-Bouissière
1Service hospitalo-universitaire de santé mentale et de thérapeutique Hôpital, Sainte-Anne, Paris.
La Revue Du Praticien
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
Because of pharmacological characteristics methadone is an interesting substitutive opiate compound. However, the most important aspect of maintenance treatment consists of the accompanying global medico-social care. Useful as a therapeutic alternative in some severe and chronic heroin addictions, methadone is useless and even dangerous in other cases. Its efficacy in preventing AIDS epidemics has not been clearly established.