Methadone maintenance treatment and social productivity in a suburban patient population.
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E B Doft
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Methadone evaluation: some additional thoughts.
This study of 460 patients showed that the 37% of the patients who were terminated as program failures did significantly worse than the active patients in terms of drug abuse, criminality, and social productivity. These findings suggest that methadone maintenance is at best a marginally effective modality for those large numbers of patients who drop out. Assuming that it is preferable for these dropouts to be on a program rather than on the streets, methadone maintenance treatment programs probably need to be more flexible so as to retain a larger number of these dropouts.
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Methadone and criminality: a suburban perspective.
In a suburban methadone program, using official police records, a study was made of patients' arrest records before and after methadone treatment. Eighty patients were willing to allow the researchers to secure their arrest records. These 80 patients were similar to the total clinic population of 226 in terms of demographic variables, arrest records, and addiction history. For these 80 patients both the rate of arrest and the number of patients arrested declined in association with entering methadone maintenance treatment. The decline was statistically significant for drug-related offenses but not for nondrug-related offenses. Overall, the decline in both rate of arrest and number of patients arrested was significant, but this was due to the decrease in drug-related arrests. Drug-related arrests play a dominant role in the criminality of the suburban patients in this study. Because of this, the reduction in drug-related arrests is more significant for this group of patients than it would have been for an inner-city patient population.
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