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Posted by: canada_winnipeg_man on 2009-12-27, 19:39:40
An earlier study conducted by Drs. Rolley E. Johnson, Jerome H. Jaffe, and Paul J. Fudala in NIDA's intramural research program in Baltimore also found that buprenorphine was as effective as methadone in maintaining patient participation in an opiate addiction treatment program. In the randomized study, 162 patients were given fixed daily doses of 8 mg of buprenorphine or 60 or 20 mg of methadone over a 17-week treatment period. Treatment retention rates for the three groups of patients were 42 percent, 32 percent, and 20 percent, respectively. However seems that yet Methadone is the only "well known " treatment at the moment. This is the web direction for narcotics anonymous: na.org/ If the person wants to stop using narcotics, this can help, there is also this other option: nar-anon.org/ index.html Good Luck and take care of yourself!!! |
