[Treatment of heroin addicts by substitution with methadone. Importance, limits and experience in France].
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.
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Service hospitalo-universitaire de santé mentale et de thérapeutique, CH Sainte-Anne, Paris.
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D005602:France; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008691:Methadone / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D008691:Methadone
Les traitements de substitution des héroïnomanes par la méthadone. Intérêt, limites et pratiques en France.