methadone maintenance treatment

Massive repressions of the OST practitioners in Ukraine

Mass detention of opioid substitution treatment (OST) patients, medical staff arrests, disclosure of confidential information, police initiated provocations, the health care system inability to fight back – all of this has become harsh reality in Ukraine. On March 11-13, 2010 in Odessa as a result of police intervention into the operations of the Oblast Narcological Dispensary, for several days treatment provision was suspended and almost 200 patients openly protested on the streets appealing to local and national media.

Doctor's fight methadone hysteria

Expert doctors from around the world rallied together in response to the well publicized and ignorant moral crusade against methadone in Scotland. The message from the group is straightforward - let the evidence do the talking.

Crossing the Redline: Two Issues that Need Urgent Improvement in China’s Methadone Maintenance Treatment

Crossing the Redline:
Two Issues that Need Urgent Improvement in China’s
Methadone Maintenance Treatment

WANG Wen

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