Attitudes and knowledge of substance misusers regarding buprenorphine and methadone maintenance therapy

Autor:	Hayley Pinto, Daphne Rumball, Richard Holland
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Methadone maintenance Health (social science) business.industry Medicine (miscellaneous) Craving Heroin Methadone maintenance therapy mental disorders Medicine medicine.symptom Open label Opiate business Psychiatry Methadone medicine.drug Buprenorphine
Zdroj:	Journal of Substance Use. 13:143-153
ISSN:	1475-9942 1465-9891
DOI:	10.1080/14659890701639808
Popis:	Aims: To assess substance users' beliefs and the sources of these beliefs regarding methadone and buprenorphine and to examine how they choose between them.Design: Forty‐two opiate‐dependent patients seeking treatment chose between open label buprenorphine or methadone maintenance treatment. Prior to treatment patients completed a semi‐structured interview or a self‐completed questionnaire.Findings: Beliefs were based primarily on their own or other users' experiences. All patients chose their treatment. There was little difference between those choosing MMT and BMT in terms of their beliefs about the drugs, although the BMT group viewed methadone more negatively and buprenorphine more positively than the MMT group. Those choosing MMT appeared to do so on the basis of familiarity whereas those choosing BMT appeared to be attracted by their beliefs that it would block heroin more effectively, reduce craving, give less intoxication and be easier to stop taking.Conclusions: Opiate users rapidly become well i...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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