Methadone maintenance 4 decades later: thousands of lives saved but still controversial.

JAMA

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Division on Substance Abuse, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside, PI Unit 66, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Published: November 2008

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