[HIV and drug users: current trends].
Despite an extensive addiction treatment and rehabilitation system for heroin addicts, inadequate infectious disease care still prevails for this group of patients. The reasons are structural in nature since both of the required medical disciplines (addiction medicine and infectious diseases epidemiology) are rarely found at one treatment location. Appropriate interdisciplinary cooperation must first be established. In a specialized heroin addiction treatment setting, patient compliance isjust as good as in other risk groups. Prerequisites for this good compliance are: Elimination of social and psychiatric disruptive factors, the selection of a medication regimen that takes secondary diseases and concomitant medication into consideration and the employment of once-daily treatment regimens or simple regimens with twice-daily dosages.
Golz
J H
JH
Praxiszentrum Kaiserdamm, Berlin. goelz@snafu.de
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000534:rehabilitation; D023241:Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active / Q000009:adverse effects; D015897:Comorbidity; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008691:Methadone / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009294:Narcotics / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012307:Risk Factors; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000534:rehabilitation*
D009294:Narcotics; D008691:Methadone