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A novel opioid maintenance program for prisoners: Report of post-release outcomes
(Un nouveau programme de maintenance aux opioïdes pour des prisonniers : les résultats après la sortie de prison.)
Auteur(s) :
KINLOCK, T. W. ;
BATTJES, R. J. ;
SCHWARTZ, R. P. ;
MTC Project Team
Année :
2005
Page(s) :
433-454
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
54
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
PRISON
;
TRAITEMENT DE MAINTENANCE
;
LAAM
;
EFFICACITE
;
SUIVI DU PATIENT
;
RECHUTE
;
RECIDIVE
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (The), 2005, 31, (3), 433-454
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Because prisoners with preincarceration heroin dependence typically relapse following release, a pilot study examined a novel opioid agonist maintenance program whereby consenting males initiated levo-alpha-acetylmethadol (LAAM) treatment shortly before release from prison with opportunity to continue maintenance in the community. Treated prisoners (experimental group) were compared with controls who received community treatment referral information only and prisoners who withdrew from treatment prior to medication regarding treatment participation and community adjustment during nine months post-release. Nineteen of 20 (95%) prisoners who initiated maintenance in prison entered community treatment, compared with 3 of 31 (10%) controls, and 1 of 13 (8%) who withdrew. Moreover, 53% of experimental participants remained in community treatment at least six months, while no other participants did so. Differences in heroin use and criminal involvement between experimental participants and each of the other two groups, while not consistently statistically significant, uniformly favored the experimental group. Despite study limitations, robust findings regarding treatment attendance suggest that this intervention is highly promising. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Social Research Center, Friends Research Institute, Inc., 1040 Park Ave., Suite 103, Baltimore, MD 21201. E-mail: tkinlockfrisrc.org
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.