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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Drug Addiction
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for drug addiction.
Reviewed November 2011
21 Resources Found
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| Title: | Antidepressants for cocaine dependence and problematic cocaine use |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | A pharmacological agent with proven efficacy does not exist for treatment of cocaine dependence. Cocaine is an alkaloid derived from the erythroxylon coca leaf that is used as powder for intranasal or intravenous use or as crack, a free-base form which ... |
| Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Title: | Dopamine agonists for the treatment of cocaine dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | A pharmacological agent with proven efficacy does not exist for treatment of cocaine dependence. Cocaine is an alkaloid derived from the erythroxylon coca leaf that is used as powder for intranasal or intravenous use or as crack, a free-base form which ... |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments versus pharmacological treatments for opioid detoxification |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People who abuse opioid drugs and become dependent on them experience social issues and health risks. Medications such as methadone and buprenorphine are substituted to help dependent drug users detoxify and return to living drug free, by reducing physi... |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Motivational interviewing for substance abuse |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | More than 76 million people worldwide have alcohol problems, and another 15 million have drug problems. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a psychological treatment that aims to help people cut down or stop using drugs and alcohol. The drug abuser and co... |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Heroin maintenance for chronic heroin-dependent individuals |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Drug dependent heroin users are preoccupied with the desire to obtain and take heroin and so have persistent drug-seeking behaviours. Those with a long history of treatment attempts and failures may benefit from the provision of heroin and flexible dose... |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Oral naltrexone maintenance treatment for opioid dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Opioid dependence is considered to be a lifelong, chronic relapsing disorder. Substantial therapeutic efforts are needed to keep people drug free. Methadone treatment plays a vital role in detoxification or maintenance programs but some individuals who ... |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Treatment for inhalant dependence and abuse |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Inhalants are being abused by large numbers of people throughout the world, particularly socio-economically disadvantaged children and adolescents. This agent can cause many brain problems, for example, abnormal movement, sensory impairment, learning/me... |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Pharmacological treatment for depression during opioid agonist treatment for opioid dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There is little evidence to support the use of antidepressants for treating people who are dependent on opioids and have clinical depression. Depression is more common in people with substance abuse and dependence than in the general population. The dep... |
| Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Title: | Opioid antagonists under heavy sedation or anaesthesia for opioid withdrawal |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Drugs that block opioids are sometimes given to opioid dependent people while they are under heavy sedation or anaesthesia to speed up withdrawal. The review of trials shows that this sort of withdrawal treatment is quicker than withdrawal managed with ... |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Opioid antagonists with minimal sedation for opioid withdrawal |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Opioid antagonists induce withdrawal by displacing opioids from their receptors. Adrenergic agonists, acting through non-opioid mechanisms, can reduce withdrawal symptoms induced by antagonists. The use of these substances in combination is a feasible a... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Alpha-adrenergic agonists for the management of opioid withdrawal |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Opioid withdrawal is similar with alpha2-adrenergic agonists and reducing doses of methadone but people stay in treatment longer with methadone and have fewer adverse effects.Managed withdrawal of opioids, or detoxification, is a required first step for... |
| Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Title: | Detoxification treatments for opiate dependent adolescents |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Substance abuse among adolescents (13 to 18 years old) is a serious and growing problem. It is important to identify effective treatments for those who are opioid dependent. For adults, pharmacotherapy is a necessary and acceptable part of effective tre... |
| Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Title: | Inpatient versus other settings for detoxification for opioid dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dependence on opioid drugs, such as heroin, morphine, and codeine, is a serious problem in many societies. Opioids are very difficult to quit using. The first step to quitting is detoxification, which can cause a number of painful symptoms as the drug w... |
| Date: | May 2008 |
| Title: | Maintenance treatments for opiate dependent adolescent |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | It is difficult to draw conclusions about the use of maintenance pharmacological interventions from only two trials. Substance abuse among adolescents (13 to 18 years old) is a serious and growing problem. The most common drugs used by young people worl... |
| Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Title: | Buprenorphine maintenance versus placebo or methadone maintenance for opioid dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Buprenorphine can reduce heroin use compared with placebo, although it is less effective than methadone. Methadone is widely used as a replacement for heroin in medically-supported maintenance or detoxification programs. Two other drugs are sometimes us... |
| Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Title: | Psychosocial interventions for pregnant women in outpatient illicit drug treatment programs compared to other interventions |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in pregnant women enrolled in illicit drug treatment programs.Women who use illicit drugs while pregnant are more likely to give birth early and have low weight infants that are at risk of neonatal abstine... |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Title: | Psychosocial interventions for cocaine and psychostimulant amphetamines related disorders |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Psychostimulants such as amphetamines and cocaine are used, at least in part, because of their effects on mood, cognition and behaviour. People who abuse or are dependent on them often have a long history of repeated periods of intoxication and of withd... |
| Date: | May 2007 |
| Title: | Treatment for Methaqualone dependence in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dependence and abuse of methaqualone, a type of sedative-hypnotic, is a major public health problem in parts of Africa and India. Treatment is highly variable and takes place in both in-patient and out-patient settings. Despite an extensive search of el... |
| Date: | Feb 2005 |
| Title: | Psychosocial treatment for opiate abuse and dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Psychosocial interventions alone are offered to people with opiate use disorders indiscriminately across countries; sometimes representing the most prevalent treatment after substitution therapy. Despite its wide use in clinical practice, no systematic ... |
| Date: | Aug 2004 |
| Title: | LAAM maintenance vs methadone maintenance for heroin dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Opiate drugs are used to help people reduce their dependence on heroin (an opiate drug). Methadone needs daily doses, but the effects do not last 24 hours for many people. A dose of LAAM (levomethadyl acetate hydrochloride) works for two or three days. ... |
| Date: | Feb 2002 |
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