Efficacy of urine monitoring in methadone maintenance.
To test the efficacy of screening urine specimens of methadone maintenance clients as a deterrent to illicit drug use, the authors randomly assigned 431 subjects to a monitored or an unmonitored group for 1 year. Monitored subjects continued to provide urine specimens once a week; unmonitored subjects did not. All other aspects of treatment remained the same. At 4 and 8 months after the study began, surprise urine collections were conducted. There was no difference between the groups in the proportion of drug-free specimens at either time.
D000328:Adult; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008691:Methadone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009294:Narcotics / Q000652:urine*; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000652:urine; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
D009294:Narcotics; D008691:Methadone