Addict attitudes toward methadone maintenance: a preliminary report
| Autor: | Patricia B. Sutker, Albert N. Allain, Charles E. Moan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Methadone maintenance Time Factors media_common.quotation_subject Medicine (miscellaneous) Heroin Preliminary report mental disorders medicine Humans Psychiatry education media_common Criminal Psychology Enthusiasm education.field_of_study Heroin Dependence Addiction Louisiana Maturity (psychological) Sexual Dysfunction Physiological Educational Status Female Adjective check list Psychology Attitude to Health Methadone Clinical psychology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | The International journal of the addictions. 9(2) |
| ISSN: | 0020-773X |
| Popis: | In the past several years it has become obvious that methadone maintenance is a popular, if not necessary, treatment approach to the problem of heroin addiction. Indeed, many addicts unable to function on a drug-abstinent basis are required, encouraged, or voluntarily request methadone maintenance as a relatively long-term situation. Proponents of this treatment modality point to a reduction in crimes committed, a significant decrease in heroin use, and a rise in steady employment among methadone clients as evidence of its success (Dole, Nyswander, and Warner, 1968; Dole, Robinson, Orraca, Towns, Searcy, and Caine, 1969; Dole, 1971). On the other hand, Brown and his colleagues (1972) sampled staff and client attitudes toward methadone maintenance using the Adjective Check List (Gough and Heilbrun, 1965) and noted that addict-clients may not share the enthusiasm for methadone exhibited by program administrators. Specifically, ratings of client psychological effectiveness and general maturity were found to ... |
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