[Heroin addiction treated with methadone. Experience in 50 patients].
The authors have reviewed the records of 50 heroin addicts treated with methadone, a drug which, in France, is delivered under strict and daily supervision to only few patients. This retrospective study yielded the following data: (1) the success rate of maintenance treatment with methadone exceeded 50 percent and remained the same in HIV positive patients; (2) social and environmental factors predictive of poor response to methadone were the absence of professional activity at the beginning of treatment and a painfully disturbed family context. A history of trouble with the law was not a factor of poor prognosis. These data raise the problem of importance of an early treatment which might have a strong influence on subsequent developments.
Olié
J P
JP
Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris.
Kecskemeti
S
S
Poirier
M F
MF
Laqueille
X
X
Perron
J L
JL
Lôo
H
H
D000328:Adult; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D005260:Female; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008691:Methadone / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012931:Social Environment
D008691:Methadone
Héroïnomanie traitée par méthadone. Expérience sur 50 malades.