Methadone-Related Research

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• Diagnostic Value of Self-Report of Alcohol Use in Patients Enrolled in a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program - (2007)
  
  
• Predicting Long-Term Stable Recovery from Heroin Addiction: Findings from a 33-Year Follow-Up Study - (2007)
  
  
• Treatment Strategies for Co-Occurring ADHD and Substance Use Disorders - (2007)
  
  
• Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction: Implications for New Pharmacotherapy - (2007)
  
  
• Influence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms on Methadone Treatment Outcome - (2007)
  
  
• Client Factors Associated With Length of Stay in Methadone Treatment among Heroin Users who Inject Drugs - (2007)
  
  
• Alcohol and Cocaine Use and Abuse Among Opioid Addicts Engaged in a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program - (2007)
  
  
• Mortality in heroin addiction: impact of methadone treatment - (2007)
  
  
• The Effect of Multiple Doses of Peginterferon alfa-2b on the Steady-State Pharmacokinetics of Methadone in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Undergoing Methadone Maintenance Therapy - (2007)
  
  
• Influence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms on Methadone Treatment Outcome - (2007)
  
  
• Patterns of illicit drug use and retention in a methadone program: A longitudinal study - (2007)
  
  
• Opioid Substitution with Methadone and Buprenorphine: Sexual Dysfunction as a Side Effect of Therapy - (2007)
  
  
• Effects of Opioid Pharmacotherapy on Psychomotor and Cognitive Performance: A Review of Human Laboratory Studies of Methadone and Buprenorphine - (2007)
  
  
• Understanding Opioid Addiction and the Function of Methadone Treatment - (2007)
  
  
• Sleep Complications in Depression, Anxiety, and Psychotic Disorders and Their Treatment - (2007)
  
  
• Assessment & Treatment of Sleep Problems - (2007)
  
  
• Sleep in the Substance using Population - (2007)
  
  
• Screening for Alcohol Use Patterns Among Methadone Maintenance Patients - (2007)
  
  
• Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with reduced quality of life among methadone patients - (2006)
  
  
• Methadone in pregnancy: treatment retention and neonatal outcomes - (2006)
  
  
• Methadone: Is It Enough? - (2006)
  
  
• Acute Pain Management for Patients Receiving Maintenance Methadone or Buprenorphine Therapy - (2006)
  
  
• The Family Factor: A form of enabling in the addict's natural support system can advance genuine recovery - (2006)
  
  
• Impact of comorbid psychiatric disorders on the outcome of substance abusers - (2006)
  
  
• Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, Violent Crime, and Traffic-Related and Other Unintended Injuries in U.S. Local and National News - (2006)
  
  
• Non-reporting of cannabis use: Predictors and relationship to treatment outcome in methadone maintained patients, In Press, in Addictive Behaviours - (2006)
  
  
• Methadone Maintenance Improves Cognitive Performance After Two Months of Treatment - (2006)
  
  
• Characterizing the Emerging Population of Prescription Opioid Abusers - (2006)
  
  
• Effect of opioid substitution therapy on alcohol metabolism - (2006)
  
  
• Factors predicting retention in treatment: 10-year experience of a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinic in Israel - (2006)
  
  
• 'Addiction Syndrome' Called Key to Recovery: For better treatment of the problem, a different way of assessing and treating it is needed - (2006)
  
  
• Determinants of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) of Opiate Users at Entry to Low Threshold Methadone Programs - (2006)
  
  
• Hepatitis C Screening and Treatment Outcomes in Patients With Substance Use/Dependence Disorders - (2006)
  
  
• Central Sleep Apnea in Stable Methadone Maintenance Treatment Patients - (2006)
  
  
• Office-Based Treatment of Opiate-Dependent Patients with Buprenorphine: It’s About Time - (2006)
  
  
• A smoking cessation intervention for the methadone-maintained - (2006)
  
  
• An overview of illegal opioid use and health services utilization in Canada - (2006)
  
  
• Methadone-Drug Interactions - (2005)
  
  
• No intrauterine growth retardation in babies of mothers stabilized on methadone before conception and throughout their pregnancies - (2005)
  
  
• Genomewide Linkage Scan for Opioid Dependence and Related Traits - (2005)
  
  
• Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder In Opioid Dependents - (2005)
  
  
• Co-Consumption of Benzodiazepines in Heroin Users, Methadone-Substituted and Codeine-Substituted Patients - (2005)
  
  
• Slow tapering from methadone maintenance in a program encouraging indefinite maintenance - (2005)
  
  
• Predictors of retention in methadone programs: A signal detection analysis - (2005)
  
  
• Prospective multicenter observational study of 260 infants born to 259 opiate-dependent mothers on methadone or high-dose buprenophine substitution - (2005)
  
  
• Response to methadone maintenance treatment of opiate dependent patients with and without significant pain - (2005)
  
  
• Factors predicting retention in treatment: 10-year experience of a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinic in Israel - (2005)
  
  
• Patterns of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse during long-term methadone maintenance treatment - (2005)
  
  
• Cycling in and out of treatment; participation in methadone treatment in NSW, 1990–2002 - (2005)
  
  
• Illicit Opioid Use in Canada: Comparing Social, Health, and Drug Use Characteristics of Untreated Users in Five Cities (OPICAN Study) - (2005)
  
  
• From opioid maintenance to abstinence: a literature review - (2005)
  
  
• Methadone doses of 100 mg or greater are more effective than lower doses at suppressing heroin selfadministration in opioid-dependent volunteers - (2005)
  
  
• High-dose methadone maintenance in pregnancy: Maternal and neonatal outcomes - (2005)
  
  
• Factors predicting 2-year retention in methadone maintenance treatment for opioid dependence - (2005)
  
  
• Group Psychotherapy for Opiate Addicts in Methadone Maintenance Treatment – A Controlled Trial - (2005)
  
  
• Depression and anxiety in patients with hepatitis C: prevalence, detection rates and risk factors - (2005)
  
  
• Pavlovian Psychopharmacology - (2004)
  
  
• The effects of methadone and its role in fatalities - (2004)
  
  
• Unintentional methadone-related overdose death in New Mexico (USA) and implications for surveillance, 1998–2002 - (2004)
  
  
• Depressive symptoms during buprenorphine vs. methadone maintenance: findings from a randomised, controlled trial in opioid dependence - (2004)
  
  
• Cost and cost-effectiveness of standard methadone maintenance treatment compared to enriched 180-day methadone detoxification - (2004)
  
  
• Outcomes of infants born to mothers receiving methadone for pain management in pregnancy - (2004)
  
  
• Gender and Other Factors Associated with the Nonmedical Use of Abusable Prescription Drugs - (2004)
  
  
• Factors associated with methadone maintenance treatment retention among street-recruited injection drug users - (2003)
  
  
• Treatment of benzodiazepine dependence in methadone maintenance treatment patients: a comparison of two therapeutic modalities and the role of psychiatric comorbidity - (2003)
  
  
• Alcohol Consumption in Heroin Users, Methadone-Substituted and Codeine-Substituted Patients – Frequency and Correlates of Use - (2003)
  
  
• Understanding polydrug use: review of heroin and cocaine co-use - (2003)
  
  
• Countering the Crisis: Ontario's Prescription for Opioid Dependence - (2001)
  
  
• Heavy Drinking, Alcohol-Dependent vs. Non Dependent Methadone-Maintenance Clients: A Follow Up Study - (1996)