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BMJ Open
December 2024
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Management and Economics, Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Hanoi, Vietnam
Objectives: To investigate the social support status and associated factors among Vietnamese methadone maintenance patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Three methadone clinics.
Subst Use Addctn J
December 2024
School of Nursing-Nursing Acute, Chronic & Continuing Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Background: People who use drugs and patients in substance use treatment may be placed at high risk for HIV due to mixing sex and drugs, potential engagement in sex work, and injection drug use. However, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adoption among these populations remains low. Methadone clinics, a main point of contact with the healthcare system for this population, are a missed opportunity to offer biomedical HIV prevention.
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December 2024
Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (Inserm U1276, /UMR CNRS 8044, /EHESS/Paris), Paris, France.
Background: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) often provokes dramatic consequences in terms of increased morbi-mortality. Two medications have mainly been worldwide used for OUD (MOUD), buprenorphine and methadone. Recently, however, some reports have highlighted the use of Morphine Sulfate (MS) mainly obtained without a prescription but used as MOUD by opioid users and especially People Who Inject Substances (PWIS).
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January 2025
Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Sciences and Services, Royal Veterinary College, Hertfordshire, UK.
Objective: To assess depth and quality of sedation and the ability to place an intravenous catheter in cats after intramuscular (IM) injection with alfaxalone-methadone-midazolam (AMM) or ketamine-methadone-midazolam (KMM).
Study Design: Blinded randomized clinical trial.
Animals: A group of 46 healthy Domestic Short Hair cats.
Harm Reduct J
November 2024
Department of Public Health, Environments & Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SH, UK.
Background: Management of opioid withdrawal in hospital settings is crucial to improve treatment completion and health outcomes among patients who use opioids, such as heroin. Evidence-based clinical guidelines can support responsive provision of opioid substitution therapy (OST). In England there is no standardised application of guidance for substance dependence management across National Health Service (NHS) Hospitals.
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