title: [Treatment of heroin addicts by substitution with methadone. Importance, limits and experience in France].
abstract: The authors present a review of literature and their personal experience concerning the practice of methadone substitutive therapy for heroin addicts in France. In their experience, the use of methadone, within the frame of a controlled administration and in the perspective of a specific pharmaco-therapeutic profile, is a valuable therapeutical option. Otherwise, methadone could only induce a new and further pharmacological dependence. The use of methadone has often been the subject of controversies overlooking the clinical reality of drug addiction. Therefore, a controlled use of methadone remains a valuable therapeutic tool if its indications are strictly delimited.
authors.affiliation: Service hospitalo-universitaire de santé mentale et de thérapeutique, CH Sainte-Anne, Paris.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Loo
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Laqueille
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rémi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Baylé
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Olie
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008691:Methadone / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D008691:Methadone
vernacular_title: Les traitements de substitution des héroïnomanes par la méthadone. Intérêt, limites et pratiques en France.