title: [Stabilizing the social and health status of drug dependent patients with methadone. Long-term maintainance therapy--Vienna results].
abstract: On September 25th, 1987 methadone was legalized in Austria for therapeutic use in drug addiction treatment in case of: 1. Long-term drug addiction with intravenous application of the drug, and several unsuccessful withdrawal therapies and/or 2. opiate addiction through intravenous application of the drug along with an existing HIV-1 infection. Since than, 291 patients were treated with methadone at the drug-dependency outpatient clinic of the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Vienna. In 1990, 96 patients treated for more than one year were investigated using a standardized questionnaire. The image in which crime, prostitution, poverty, ill health all merge was broken by this decriminalization. Methadone treatment offers a first step toward social rehabilitation for drug addicts who have been living as criminals on the fringe of society.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Wien.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Loimer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Werner
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hollerer
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pfersmann
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schmid-Siegel
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Presslich
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D015497:HIV-1; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008691:Methadone / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*
chemical_list: D008691:Methadone
vernacular_title: Soziale und gesundheitliche Stabilisierung Drogenabhängiger durch Methadon. Langzeitsubstitutionstherapie--Wiener Ergebnisse.