Search for dissertations about: "Opiate maintenance treatment"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Opiate maintenance treatment.
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1. Use and misuse of sedative drugs and related substances - Findings in the general population and in individuals with opioid dependence
Abstract : Background: Prescription sedatives are efficient in the treatment of anxiety and sleeping disorders, but are associated with a risk of misuse and dependence, as well as an increased risk of accidents, injuries and overdoses, both in the general population and especially in individuals with other substance misuse. The present thesis aims to investigate prescription sedative use and misuse in two kinds of samples - in the general population, with focus on its association with subjective health and quality life, and in the subpopulation of individuals with opioid dependence, with focus on treatment outcome in opioid maintenance treatment and mortality. READ MORE
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2. Improving maintenance treatment of heroin addiction : the role of buprenorphine
Abstract : Background: Heroin addiction is a condition with high morbidity and mortality. The discovery of Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) by Dole and co-workers 1964 represented the first major advance in the treatment of this condition. Through the work of Gunne et al in Uppsala, MMT was implemented in Sweden already in 1966. READ MORE
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3. Drug use, mortality and outcomes among drug users in the general population and in methadone maintenance treatment
Abstract : The two general aims of this thesis were to longitudinally analyse the association between drug use experience among young men and mortality and socio-economic situation up to late middle age and secondly the impact of methadone maintenance treatment on opiate dependents life course. Study I and II were based on a cohort of 48 024 of 50 465 men, born in 1949-51 and compulsory conscripted in 1969/70. READ MORE
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4. Drug-related deaths in Stockholm during the period 1985-1994 : causes and manners of death in relation to type of drug abuse, HIV-infection and methadone treatment
Abstract : During the period from 1984 to 1994 great changes occurred in the situation for drug addicts In Stockholm. The HIV-infection among intravenous drug addicts was detected in 1984 and a general HIV-screening started in 1985. READ MORE