Defunding the Poor: The Impact of Lost access to Subsidized Methadone Maintenance Treatment on Women Injection Drug Users
| Autor: | Marsha Rosenbaum, Jeanette Irwin, Allyson Washburn, Margaret S. Kelley, Lynn Wenger, Kelly R. Knight |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Drug
medicine.medical_specialty Methadone maintenance Health (social science) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Medicine (miscellaneous) Subsidy Qualitative property Psychiatry and Mental health mental disorders medicine Psychiatry business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Drug Issues. 26:923-942 |
| ISSN: | 1945-1369 0022-0426 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002204269602600411 |
| Popis: | Qualitative data from women defunded from a subsidized methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) program were analyzed to determine the impact of defunding on the women and their dependents. Women attested to the efficacy of MMT in creating a stable environment in which their illicit drug use was eliminated or controlled; they were able to decrease their participation in illicit activities and pursue further employment and educational goals. When defunding occurred women employed a variety of strategies including family borrowing, welfare funds, and illicit activities to remain on private MMT programs. The result of these payment strategies was often a premature detoxification from MMT due to unpaid clinic bills. Many women returned to heroin use to alleviate withdrawal symptoms from methadone detoxification. This return to heroin use was also accompanied by increased illicit activities. Defunded women reported severe emotional and financial destabilization as a result of lost access to subsidized methadone maintenance treatment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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